https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/michael-webb-ai-jobs-labour-market/
Host Luisa Rodriguez interviews economist Michael Webb of DeepMind, the British Government, and Stanford about how AI progress is going to affect people’s jobs and the labour market.
They cover:
- The jobs most and least exposed to AI
- Whether we’ll we see mass unemployment in the short term
- How long it took other technologies like electricity and computers to have economy-wide effects
- Whether AI will increase or decrease inequality
- Whether AI will lead to explosive economic growth
- What we can we learn from history, and reasons to think this time is different
- Career advice for a world of LLMs
- Why Michael is starting a new org to relieve talent bottlenecks through accelerated learning, and how you can get involved
- Michael’s take as a musician on AI-generated music
- And plenty more