The uncomfortable truth about AI and the American worker
Workers fear the robots are coming for their jobs. New research shows the opposite — and why that might actually be more unsettling.
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Surveys consistently show that workers dread artificial intelligence. They worry it will render their skills obsolete, hollow out their roles, and eventually eliminate their paychecks altogether. That anxiety has shaped public discourse, union bargaining tables, and congressional hearings for the better part of three years. But a sweeping new analysis from Morgan Stanley Research offers a finding that cuts against the fear — and quietly illuminates something far more consequential about how AI is reshaping the American economy.Recommended Video AI isn’t destroying jobs. It’s making workers dramatically more productive. And the workers are doing that extra production? They have no idea. The numbers that should calm everyone down The Morgan Stanley report, authored by Chief U.S.
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