Will AI take my job? Ask an economist!
The Indicator from Planet Money

Will AI take my job? Ask an economist!

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 18, 20262 min
  • Interview
  • Business & money

Is AI coming for our jobs? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes AI could wipe out many white-collar jobs in the next few years. While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues AI will reshape existing roles and create even more jobs than we have now. So which future are we really facing: a job-pocalypse or a jobs transformation? For answers, join The Indicator's Adrian Ma for "Ask An Economist.” This is a virtual event and live Q&A featuring two economists who've studied this issue: Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel Prize-winning professor at MIT, and Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at Stanford an...

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This week on sources and methods, President Trump's diesel deal with Russia? Would it help with shipping costs and would it even be legal? The United States produces more diesel than it consumes. There's no real need to bring more diesel into this country.

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Plus, we dig into claims from Ukraine that the U.S. cut access to crucial military satellites. Listen now to sources and methods from NPR. Hey everyone, it is Adrian Ma dropping in on the weekend to tell you about something I'm pretty excited about. It's a special virtual event that we're calling Ask an Economist.

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It's a live Q&A over Zoom where you, our audience, get to pose your burning questions to economists about hot topics in the news. For example, a couple of months ago, we did our first one of these that was all about the housing market. And not to toot our own horn or anything, but the audience afterwards told us they loved it.

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