Comment by David Autor

My concern is not about us running out of jobs per se. In fact, we're running out of workers. The concern is about devaluation of expertise. [...] AI will mostly affect specific occupations and roles and tasks rather than entire industries. We don't expect entire industries to just go away. [...] Even if we said, 'Look, the labor market will be 5% better on average.' Well, it might be 90% worse for some people and 95% better for others, and no one experiences 5%. Unverified source (2026)