Will epochal advances in Artificial Intelligence complement human expertise, thereby increasing its value, or render it increasingly unnecessary? During both the industrial and computer revolutions, the forms of expertise rewarded by the labor market changed substantially, with vastly uneven consequences for workers in different occupations and possessing different education levels. These forces will play out differently again in the AI era. While the future is a design problem not a forecasting exercise, David Autor will discuss the challenges that AI poses for the labor market, as well as some of the novel opportunities it offers.
CES Munich Lectures in Economics 2025
Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future
David Autor, Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, MIT Economics, USA
