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A ‘white-collar bloodbath’ doesn’t have to be our fate
Instead of asking which future is coming, we should be asking which future we want.
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The distinction between augmentation and replacement can be subtle.
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Tim Wu
There’s been a lot of talk in recent weeks about a “white-collar bloodbath”, a scenario in the near future in which many college-educated workers are replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) programmes that do their jobs faster and better.
Dr Dario Amodei, the chief executive of the AI company Anthropic, recently predicted that half of entry-level positions in fields like law, consulting and finance could meet this fate in just a few years.
