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How AI could help rebuild the middle class

2023-05-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·21m 22s ·by NPR
How AI could help rebuild the middle class
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About this episode

For the last four decades, technology has been mostly a force for greater inequality and a shrinking middle class. But new empirical evidence suggests that the age of AI could be different. We speak to MIT’s David Autor, one of the greatest labor economists in the world, who envisions a future where