Erik Brynjolfsson on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Erik Brynjolfsson

Economist, AI & productivity scholar

There's going to be a lot of new jobs created. You got to tell both parts of that story.

AI Verified (Jun 25, 2026)

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Erik Brynjolfsson, interview with James Pethokoukis, “AI, jobs, and productivity,” Faster, Please! podcast, June 25, 2026.

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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AI Verified Brynjolfsson says many new jobs will be created and urges focus on them; support for net job creation is substantially more likely. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Faster, Please! interview (June 25, 2026) attributes this exact wording to Erik Brynjolfsson. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI will create a permanent underclass

AI could create significant unemployment if humans do not adapt fast enough; it could create malign new forms of inequality too.

AI Verified source (Jun 29, 2026)

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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

We've really been very unbalanced in how we tax labor and capital. Let's level the playing field and not favor entrepreneurs putting people out of work by replacing them with capital.

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