AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs
AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobsHappy Labor Day!! Noah SmithSep 07, 20264496157SharePhoto via Wikimedia CommonsIt’s Labor Day, so here’s a post about how human labor is alive and well in the age of AI.I live in San Francisco and hang out with a lot of tech people, both in the AI industry and outside of it. And one thing that almost everyone I know here believes is that AI’s main economic effect is to displace humans from their jobs.
- ▪AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobsHappy Labor Day!!
- ▪Noah SmithSep 07, 20264496157SharePhoto via Wikimedia CommonsIt’s Labor Day, so here’s a post about how human labor is alive and well in the age of AI.I live in San Francisco and hang out with a lot of tech people, both in the AI industry a
- ▪And one thing that almost everyone I know here believes is that AI’s main economic effect is to displace humans from their jobs.
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| Publication time | Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:38:41 +0000 |
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AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobsHappy Labor Day!! Your labor is still valuable. Noah SmithSep 07, 20264496157SharePhoto via Wikimedia CommonsIt’s Labor Day, so here’s a post about how human labor is alive and well in the age of AI.I live in San Francisco and hang out with a lot of tech people, both in the AI industry and outside of it. And one thing that almost everyone I know here believes is that AI’s main economic effect is to displace humans from their jobs. Most people don’t have concrete arguments for why this should be true; it’s just an article of faith.
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