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A couple of weeks ago, at a $50 million arena built in a casino parking lot in Las Vegas, I witnessed a libertarian thought experiment come to life. The inaugural Enhanced Games were the first sporting competition where participants were encouraged to take performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n
For supporters of the event, the Enhanced Games offered a glimpse of a future in which medical advances push the human race to new heights\u2014and they never have to get old. As I watched the games unfold, two questions bounced around my head: were they right? And what does that mean for the rest of us?<\/p>\n
Read the full story to understand the answers.<\/p>\n
Despite the growing hysteria over AI\u2019s threat to white-collar jobs, there\u2019s still scant evidence that the technology has had a large-scale impact on the labor market.<\/p>\n
Analysis of US labor data shows that unemployment in occupations most exposed to AI is actually lower than in less-exposed jobs. There are also no signs that large numbers of workers are shifting from AI-threatened professions into supposedly safer manual-labor jobs.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s true that things aren\u2019t great in the job market. But the reason isn\u2019t simply the rise of AI.<\/p>\n
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\u2014David Rotman<\/em><\/p>\n