Dan Katz on AI will create a permanent underclass

Dan Katz

Economist and author writing for the International Monetary Fund on AI and labor-market adjustment.

Technological progress has created more jobs than it has destroyed.

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Dan Katz, “Artificial Intelligence and the Economics of Adjustment,” Finance & Development, International Monetary Fund, June 25, 2026.

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AI will create a permanent underclass

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

This is likely to be the net impact of AI. By reducing the cost of analysis, prediction, communication, coordination, and—increasingly in its agentic form—action, AI makes a wide range of services cheaper and more scalable. This will eventually incre...

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