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This would mean companies can fire or put wage pressure much more effectively on highly Skilled or experienced workers by onboarding low skill low experience mu

• politician 3y ago
  It could go that way, but another possibility is that the technology undermines the education and the informal apprenticeship situation to such a degree that only older workers are effective while younger workers can only achieve what the AI allows them to achieve. Cheating is already pervasive in education. Consider the relationship between atmospheric nuclear testing and low-background steel [1] but for AI and older workers whose knowledge predates the introduction of LLMs in the workforce. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
• sitkack 3y ago
  It can onboard low skilled labor faster, but they don't have the rest of the skills to round them out. I am not saying that AI isn't coming for your jobs, because it is. GenAI is extremely useful for high skilled folks, just not directly in the thing you are super skilled at, but it can play an enormous supporting role in everything else.
• usaar333 3y ago
  From a cursory read, they don't reveal the productivity difference between high skilled and low skilled workers (https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31161/w31161.pdf); https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31161/w311... guessing this is confidential info. My guess though is that high skilled workers remain far more productive than AI-augmented low skilled workers.