Martha Gimbel on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Martha Gimbel

Executive Director and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale University.

Current evidence points to modest effects of artificial-intelligence tools on jobs.

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Martha Gimbel, “Why AI hasn’t caused a job apocalypse — so far,” Nature, March 24, 2026.

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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AI Verified Gimbel’s statement directly assesses AI’s current job effects as modest, without predicting net job creation; relevant and supports abstention. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Correct answer: abstain. Gimbel reports modest current effects rather than a net employment forecast; recorded abstain matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Nature (24 Mar 2026) by Martha Gimbel uses this exact sentence as its standfirst; attribution, date, and source match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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

We tax capital less than we tax labor in this country, and we also have many loopholes for capital taxation. [...] If some other organization is able to use AI to massively increase their profits, and fire all their workers, and they don’t hire any o...

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Martha Gimbel abstains

AI will create a permanent underclass

Where we are right now is that AI is not having a large impact on hiring. That's not surprising. [...] Just because something is likely not happening right now does not mean that it can't happen next year, three years, five years [from now].

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