I’m worried that the recent AI exposure versus jobs papers (1, 2) are still quite a distance from an ideal identification strategy of finding “profession twins” that differ only in their exposure to AI. Occupations that are differently exposed to AI are different in countless other ways that are correlated with the impact of other recent macroeconomic shocks.
I’m worried that the recent AI exposure versus jobs papers (
1,2) are still quite a distance from an ideal identification strategy of finding “profession twins” that differ only in their exposure to AI. Occupations that are differently exposed to AI are different in countless other ways that are correlated with the impact of other recent macroeconomic shocks.