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James Bryant's avatar

Firstly, you wrote quite a lovely article! I enjoyed the deep dive into A.I. vs. Automation, so I have to thank you for linking it under my note yesterday.

Secondly, I was just writing an article on a closely related subject under A.I., and happened to come to the same opinion as yours. I would like to note, it does appear that a lot of the concern and fear mongering towards A.I. stems from the fact that a lot of the fear mongerers/exaggerated reports cast fear on the potential for AGI. While, I don't believe that it will follow the same principles of economics as automation and other innovations have, it is comforting to know there is a decent chance it will.

I would like to know, what is your thoughts on the general landscape of reporting of A.I.? I've found it to be either overly positive without criticism, to overtly negative and down right terrifying.

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Stephen Day's avatar

Great article. I tend to agree with your predictions.

There was a good recent article in the Journal of Economics Teaching on how to teach the perspective that AI will substitute for human jobs in a principles class. I'll be having my students look at a couple different models and studies and argue which they think is more likely to happen.

https://journalofeconomicsteaching.org/a-note-on-teaching-automation-in-undergraduate-courses-casey/

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