Pascual Restrepo on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Pascual Restrepo

Yale economist; Associate Professor studying automation, AI, and labor markets; frequent collaborator with Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu

A lot of these claims are premature. Many of the people making them have an interest in selling a product, so you have to take them with a grain of salt.

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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 more jobs than it destroys

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AI will create a permanent underclass

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 ...

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