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Daniel Susskind
Oxford / King's College London; AI and work economist
Oxford economist; senior research associate at King's College London. Author of 'A World Without Work' (2020) and co-author with father Richard Susskind of 'The Future of the Professions' (2015).
current Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor, King's College London
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Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues we are heading toward 'technological unemployment', not because AI will eliminate all jobs, but because it will reduce demand for human labor across enough domains that distribution becomes the central political question.
The threat of technological unemployment is real. As task encroachment by machines accelerates, the question is no longer whether to redistribute, but how.
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