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Yale economist Pascual Restrepo argues that AGI will skip automating most jobs because the economic incentive simply isn't there.

Yale economist Pascual Restrepo argues that AGI will skip automating most jobs because the economic incentive simply isn't there.

Restrepo's NBER paper challenges the assumption that AI will automate all work it's technically capable of doing

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