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Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

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Re: Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

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Work is freezing hiring and upping spending on tokens for everyone. Don't know if this is effective and I don't think management knows either, but it's what they're doing

> Work is freezing hiring and upping spending on tokens for everyone. Doesn't mean the two are related. Is AI just the excuse? We've got tariffs, war, uncertainty and other drama non stop.

It's what they're telling us

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> that my spouse and her colleagues use AI A LOT for diagnosis and treatment plans I hope they know what they're doing.

Just like anything else, you either think "that's definitely wrong" or "huh, I guess that's probably it." If its really serious, you have to pause and make of a judgement call of course.

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What’s your proposed alternative, hotshot armchair expert? They do nothing?

Well, there is such a thing called academic institutions whose revenue does not depend on selling AI products, just as an example.

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What’s your proposed alternative, hotshot armchair expert? They do nothing?

My alternative? Nationalize the company and implement a workplace democracy to replace the executive team + board.

I trust the workers more to dictate the direction of a company than most executives.

They can't do worse.

edit: or what another commentator said, fucking academia. Public universities have done more for humanity than nearly anything to come out of SV. Surveillance capitalism, mass misery + psychosis; it's very telling what our society values when mass amounts of the Earth are desperately trying to ban these very same services to protect children.

Re: Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

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From my experience as a software engineer, doubling my productivity hasn’t reduced my workload. My output per hour has gone up, but expectations and requirements have gone up just as fast. Software development is effectively endless work, and AI has mostly compressed timelines rather than reduced total demand.
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