AI may reshape the labour market, but the deeper disruption is in education
We must relook how students are being formed, not just how workers are being retrained
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ARTIFICIAL intelligence firm Anthropic has reignited global debate about the future of work. In their report published on Mar 5, economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory attempted to measure not just what AI could theoretically do, but what it is already doing in the workplace.
Their findings are both reassuring and unsettling. There is currently little evidence that AI has caused large-scale unemployment.
But the gap between what AI systems are theoretically capable of doing and what they are actually doing in workplaces remains vast – suggesting the labour market is still in the early stages of adjustment.
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