unemployed workers, looking for jobs
The loss of manufacturing jobs in recent decades has brought about economic hardships for many Americans. AI job displacement won't play out quite the same way.
  • AI technologies have the potential to replace some US jobs in the future.
  • An economist says people displaced by AI will be better off than past manufacturing workers.
  • AI job displacement will be more gradual and dispersed, giving people a better shot at finding work.

One of the big questions facing US economists is what the coming AI revolution will mean for workers.