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- Experts say to look to the past for hints of what the AI boom will mean for the future of work.
- There's a fine line between increasing productivity and making some jobs replaceable.
- In many ways, generative AI is unlike any technology before; the future could still hold surprises.
They say history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme. It's why top researchers are looking to the past as a guide to predict how generative AI could affect workers' jobs in the years and decades to come.