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Stanford's AI Economist: The Next 10 Years Will Be the Best AND the Worst in History | Erik Brynjolfsson

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Stanford's AI Economist: The Next 10 Years Will Be the Best AND the Worst in History | Erik Brynjolfsson

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

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Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

Silicon Valley Girl: AI, Tech and Career Growth

15 HOURS AGO
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Erik Brynjolfsson is the Stanford economist who has spent 30 years measuring what technology actually does to jobs. He wrote "The Second Machine Age," directs the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and just published "Canaries in the Coal Mine" — the paper show...

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Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who has spent three decades studying technology's impact on labor, shares insights from his latest research showing AI has already reduced employment by 16% for young workers in exposed fields. He discusses how AI transforms specific tasks rather than entire jobs, and offers a roadmap for navigating the changing career landscape.
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AI affects specific tasks within jobs, not entire occupations.
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Societies succeed by embracing dynamism and re-education.
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AI amplifies intention rather than replacing it
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Human improvisation is a superpower.
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Consumer surplus from LLMs surged 70% in nine months
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Humans still have agency to steer AI towards beneficial futures.

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AI is Already Cutting Jobs for Young Workers: What the Data Shows
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The Skills That Will Save Your Career from Automation
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Why Liberal Arts Might Be Your Best Bet in an AI World
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The Fourth Category of Jobs: Roles We Haven't Imagined Yet
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Why GDP is Broken: Measuring What AI Actually Creates
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How to Partner with AI Instead of Being Replaced by It
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Erik Brynjolfsson: There are a bunch of jobs, millions of jobs that are going to disappear. Marina Mogilko: How soon? Erik Brynjolfsson: Already. It's already happening. Marina Mogilko: This is Erik, Stanford economist, who saw AI coming before almost a...