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11 April 2023

The revolution will not be brought to you by ChatGPT

Robots never took your job, and neither will chatbots.

By Aaron Benanav

Is AI-led job displacement about to reshape the economy?

Not so long ago we were worried less about chatbots and more so about robots. In 2013 the Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne released a paper claiming that 47 per cent of jobs would disappear to automation within one to two decades. The piece triggered a deluge of hype about automation.

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