# The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet

> More than 200 economists, AI researchers and Nobel laureates have signed a statement warning that AI could drive economic change larger than the Industrial Revolution, and over a dramatically shorter span. The signatories include MIT's Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, names that carry weight precisely because they are not known for hype. The document points to early, concrete signs rather than speculation, notably entry-level jobs shrinking by 2.7 percent this year, the kind of first-rung roles that traditionally launch careers. Its recommendations are pragmatic and unglamorous: better data collection so policymakers can actually see what is happening, reforms to unemployment insurance, wage insurance for displaced workers, and incentives for employers to keep hiring. What makes this warning land is its restraint. It is not a prediction of robot apocalypse but a call to build shock absorbers now, while the disruption is still measured in single-digit percentages rather than something far harder to reverse. Whether governments move at that speed is the open question.

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## Wortins' read

More than 200 economists, AI researchers and Nobel laureates have signed a statement warning that AI could drive economic change larger than the Industrial Revolution, and over a dramatically shorter span. The signatories include MIT's Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, names that carry weight precisely because they are not known for hype. The document points to early, concrete signs rather than speculation, notably entry-level jobs shrinking by 2.7 percent this year, the kind of first-rung roles that traditionally launch careers. Its recommendations are pragmatic and unglamorous: better data collection so policymakers can actually see what is happening, reforms to unemployment insurance, wage insurance for displaced workers, and incentives for employers to keep hiring. What makes this warning land is its restraint. It is not a prediction of robot apocalypse but a call to build shock absorbers now, while the disruption is still measured in single-digit percentages rather than something far harder to reverse. Whether governments move at that speed is the open question.

## Source

[Read the full story at Platformer](https://www.platformer.news/ai-jobs-warning-brynjolfsson-acemoglu/)

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