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AGI could drive wages below subsistence level | Epoch AI

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This Gradient Updates issue explores how AGI could disrupt labor markets, potentially driving wages below subsistence levels, and challenge historical economic trends.

AGI could drive wages below subsistence level | Epoch AI Gradient Updates shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress. These posts solely represent the views of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch AI as a whole. Historically, many have feared that automation would lead to mass unemployment and lower wages. Yet, despite massive improvements in automation in the last two centuries, average wages have risen, living standards have improved, and high unemployment has not become a persistent, long-term issue as many had expected. This historic

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