The Week in Jobs: The AI Jobs Apocalypse Debate, a Trade Jobs Boom, & an RTO Firing Gone Wrong
About this episode
The episode discusses the potential impact of AI on jobs, featuring insights from a Goldman Sachs report and economist Daron Acemoglu.
Pete and Peter promised something lighter this week, and for the most part, they deliver. They open with a new Goldman Sachs report weighing whether an "AI jobs apocalypse" is actually coming. Goldman's answer is more measured than the headlines: disruption spread over roughly 10 years, concentrated mostly in entry-level roles. MIT economist and Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu takes a tougher stance in the same conversation, predicting millions of displacements and noting that "no general law o...
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