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Will AI put millions out of work?
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Andrew Ng argues AI job displacement fears are overblown, citing physical bottlenecks like data-center construction.
AI labor impact likely slower than feared
AI capex and data-center buildout data
Rapid capability gains could accelerate displacement
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Will AI put millions of people out of work? Andrew Ng, CEO and founder of LearnVector, argues the fears are overblown. He tells Alex Hern, The Economist’s AI writer, that AI automates only part of most jobs, that its progress will be slowed by physical bottlenecks like building data centres and that
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