How much is AI actually affecting the workforce?

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  N-P-R. This is the Indication from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods.

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  And I'm Waylon Wong.

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  A couple of months ago, Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company,

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  took the stage at an event called the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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  He was there to talk about the future of the economy and the importance of skilled trades.

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  And as he sees it, something of a crisis.

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  Hiring an entry worker at a tech company has fallen 50% since 2019.

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  Is that really where we want all of our kids to go?

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  And then Jim Farley kind of just drops in this huge prediction.

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  Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white collar workers in the US.

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  Half of all white collar workers.

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  That is quite a pronouncement from the CEO of a major company.

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  And Jim Farley is not the only executive talking in these dramatic terms about how AI might upend the economy

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  as we know it.

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  Like it could be a 21st century version of the Industrial Revolution.

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  You mean like a generation's long transformational era of human history that will change life forever for you and me?

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  Well, we only have nine minutes.

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  So to the end of the show,

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  we will talk to an economist who's found one small but fascinating way to measure the impact of AI on workers.

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