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The speaker thinks a labor-supply shock from AI might be so large and rapid that the usual heuristic about labor supply and wages cannot be relied on.
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“Maybe this labor supply shock will be so big and so fast that we can't count on this general heuristic anymore.”Play from 5:05Report a misattribution
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