AI's biggest losers: upper-middle-class professionals
The guest argued the biggest losers from AI will be upper-middle-class professionals whose intellectual work is displaced, leading to lower status and income.
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The guest argued that AI will be a deflationary but socially disruptive force, displacing enough jobs to necessitate radically higher taxes (including on capital/wealth) and some form of Universal Basic Income (UBI).
The guest argued the biggest losers from AI will be upper-middle-class professionals whose intellectual work is displaced, leading to lower status and income.