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Who will survive and thrive in the new AI era?

Bloomberg Television | April 22, 2026



AI is already reshaping the value of human expertise, but its effects on workers aren’t predetermined. MIT professor David Autor says the key question isn’t what jobs can be automated, but which tasks within a job are automated and who benefits from that shift. In some cases, AI can increase wages and productivity; in others, it can lower barriers to entry, intensify competition and compress pay. Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses whether AI will widen inequality or expand opportunity, and how policymakers can steer its development.
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  1. @todretex

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    AI job replacement is more about Gate-keeping imo. AI wont replace you if you are inefficient to begin with and are allowed to be, or your job is bureaucratic in nature. These will remain. AI has boots on the ground only where things are being made or built.

  2. @kensai7

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    Has anyone played here Stellaris from Paradox Games? Well, I see it unavoidable that in the best case scenario we are all gonna be Bio-trophies… but this demands a great good programming of the AI to indeed give "glory to organics" so we can have our "mandatory pampering"… 😁

  3. @GoldenEmperor5Manifest

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    I think it's so cute that you all seem to think legislators who take lobbyist money as a habit would prioritize your peasant interests over a techno-feudalism world noble.

    No… you'll have distribution if they feel like they want us as pets. If they don't, we have no use and well I hope we can make an economy of our own but I'm not too hopeful.

  4. @catherinec8642

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    People need to have a purpose in life. What will be their purpose if they can’t work? It’s one thing if a person is over 55 years old, s/he may be content to retire early. But I think revolutions could occur when college graduates can’t find jobs and they feel like they never will. Perhaps, our government will need to tax AI & robotics companies and create at least part-time jobs for people and pay them a UBI.

  5. @SeanCarpenter518

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    Discussing ride sharing apps without acknowledging the real disruption of barrier to entry (taxi medallions / regulatory approval) is a major miss. 4:50 regulatory requirements will be the only real barrier to these “specialized knowledge work” like law and medicine

  6. @spaceoddity2485

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    AI will make the rich richer and the poor poor. because that is what the people who are running the show want. If they had altruistic values, then the wealth could be shared between all the people. But they don’t, and they never will.

  7. @casey206969

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    I think AI multiplies the value of data, so as it gets better most labor we sell to the market will look like data collection. There are so many things only people can do, AI can't get sick. Anything that could only happen to a human could be recorded and sold. Right now you pay for waste removal services, in the future they'll pay you. There is so much unique data that people generate every day only a fraction of it was worth collecting before. If people can both capture that value and generate more it can become a real job.
    One possible future
    2015: $30/year (2025 dollars)
    2025: $600/year
    2030: $4,500/year
    2040: $55,000/year

  8. @ForNoOne1981

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    Even for those jobs that are uplifted by AI, the competition in the job market will be intense and the compensation will drop as a result of too much supply. Am I watching an MIT economics professor who doesn't understand supply and demand?

  9. @koolxxxyear

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    I was just thinking, All the students from all these colleges & universities are taught the same thing in their classes. Students take the same tests & learned the same thing. Isn’t it just the same as AI algorithm?? Suppose AI should be graded the same like cookie cutter! Except there are top and bottom students in schools but not mass production of AI, so AI will out number humans in any industry by far greater numbers than humans. It may take a million dollars to produce a MD, but AI can produce a virtual MD in minutes with far less cost. I think many hospitals are working on that. But it won’t lower healthcare cost though, Health Net will pocket more profits.

  10. @Ryanizer1000

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    I don't think the current government, led arguably by the most transparently corrupt President so far with a Congress unable to legislate, will be able to do anything effective on regulation

  11. @thungo185

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    The AI shift represents a profound transformation—from AI to SI (Superintelligence).
    Intelligence evolution: AI → AGI → SI

    SuperIntelligence
    SuperIntelligence
    SuperIntelligence
    SuperIntelligence
    SuperIntelligence

  12. @xzx3

    April 22, 2026 at 8:48 pm

    If money/ monetary currency of any kind for exchange of goods and services is taken out of the equation all these could look very different. Back to barter system of sorts

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