David Autor - 2016-ICT-Conference

Conference Video|Duration: 45:08
April 27, 2016
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    Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The Past and Future of Workplace Automation

    Recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping our thinking about the likely trajectory of occupational change and employment growth. Understanding the evolving relationship between computer capability and human skill demands requires confronting historical thinking about machine displacement of human labor and considering the contemporary incarnation of this displacement: the simultaneous growth of high-education, high-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs.

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    Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The Past and Future of Workplace Automation

    Recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping our thinking about the likely trajectory of occupational change and employment growth. Understanding the evolving relationship between computer capability and human skill demands requires confronting historical thinking about machine displacement of human labor and considering the contemporary incarnation of this displacement: the simultaneous growth of high-education, high-wage and low-education, low-wages jobs.

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