AI's Promise and Limits: Augmenting Jobs More Than Replacing Them
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AI can extend human capabilities and create opportunities, not just replace jobs. Tools like Github Copilot can make programmers 56% more efficient.
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AI may create as many or more jobs than it displaces by enabling new lines of work and boosting productivity.
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People shouldn't primarily worry about running out of work, but how we use AI - for good or ill.
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AI has limits currently - it can't exercise judgment or suggest wholly new applications like a person.
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Past technological shifts created unforeseeable new jobs; the same may happen with AI in computing, medicine, finance, etc.