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Justin Wolfers: Why AI Threatens Men's Jobs More Than Women's
Justin Wolfers on why AI is a different kind of revolution: past technological shifts like electricity and the steam engine substituted for brawn, favoring men. AI substitutes for cognition, and language, where men hold no advantage. Wolfers explains why that could push more men into service and knowledge work as traditionally male-coded jobs keep declining.