The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
Platformer Casey Newton
200+ economists and AI leaders just signed a statement saying we need to act now on AI's job risks. Even former skeptics who won Nobel prizes are on board now, and that's the real story.
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More than 200 economists, researchers, and Nobel laureates put their names on a short statement this week called
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
I'm the type who thinks the data lag is the actual scandal here: companies have every incentive to blame layoffs on macro conditions instead of admitting they swapped juniors for Claude, so the numbers we're arguing over are basically noise wearing a suit. Get better instrumentation first, then argue policy. And Altman calling Apple
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