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Job replacement and artificial intelligence

one of the existential questions of our time must surely be: Will artificial intelligence (AI) replace me at work? The good news for those who wake up in a cold sweat at night is that it is not happening (yet). Four of the world’s leading economists, Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Jonathan Hazell and Pascual Restrepo, recently published an NBER Working Paper to find out whether robots have already started taking over.

To answer this, they firstly show that between 2010 and 2018, there has been a rapid

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