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Comment by Pascual Restrepo

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Yale economist; Associate Professor studying automation, AI, and labor markets; frequent collaborator with Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu
As a statement of principle, I believe it. In practice, it’s hard. But in principle, if you can track what a worker does for long enough, eventually you learn to do what they’re doing. If I can observe enough examples and have enough computing power and hardware, eventually I can replicate those capabilities.
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Pascual Restrepo, “Pascual Restrepo on AI, automation, and the future of work,” Yale Department of Economics, March 17, 2026.
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AI will create a permanent underclass
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AI Verified Verified verbatim in Yale Economics Q&A (Mar. 17, 2026). · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago
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