Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment - Marc Andreessen Substack
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"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern
Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment "In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern Marc Andreessen Mar 04, 2023 297 Share Fears about new technology replacing human labor and causing overall unemployment have raged across industrialized societies for hundreds of years, despite a nearly continual rise in both jobs and wages in capitalist economies. The jobs apocalypse is always right around the corner; just ask the Luddites . We had two such anti-technology jobs moral panics in the last 20 years — “outsourcing” enabled by the
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