Tyler Cowen's 2013 argument — that technology is bifurcating labor markets into high-skill workers who collaborate effectively with machines and low-skill workers who are displaced by them — one of the first serious books about AI and labor polarization.
Creates the AI labor polarization argument — Average Is Over argues (before the current AI wave) that machine intelligence will eliminate middle-skill work, creating winner-takes-most dynamics; it is the most prescient economic account of AI's labor market effects from the pre-ChatGPT era.
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