Martin Wolf talks to David Autor: could AI be a bigger threat to US jobs than China?

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  China's accession to the World Trade Organization at the start of the 21st century

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  changed the lives of millions of Western workers.

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  Manufacturing jobs became less lucrative or disappeared altogether,

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  contributing to the decline of communities across the United States and further afield.

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  Now, almost 25 years after the China shock first hit,

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  China's impact on US Manufacturing jobs is once again in the headlines.

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  President Trump says his eye watering tariffs on Chinese imports will bring work back to the United States.

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  Are Trump's aggressive trade measures revenge for the China shock?

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  Will they work?

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  Or is the US President focusing on the wrong threat?

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  This is the Economic Show.

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  I'm Martin Wolff, the FT's chief economics commentator.

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  I'm joined today by David Ottor, a professor of economics at mit.

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  David has written extensively on how the China shock has changed the US Economy.

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  He's also an authority on AI and job automation and how those trends may change the labor market.

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  David, welcome to the show.

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  Thank you so much.

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  A pleasure to speak with you.

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  So let's start just

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  because it's so current right now with the China shock and what it's now doing to American politics.

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