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"Basically, these researchers went through a database of job descriptions and subjectively decided which ones they thought could be replaced by computers," writes Noah Smith. "To be perfectly blunt, this seems like a pretty poor method for assessing the automatability of jobs." Agreed. He continues, "But 'AI will increase labor productivity while forcing a small number of people to find new jobs' is not the kind of story that goes viral on social media, while '300 million jobs will be lost' definitely is that kind of story." Via SAIL.

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