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Christopher Pissarides: 'The more I study AI, the more optimistic I get about the labour market'


The rapid developments in artificial intelligence have been causing fears that many jobs will disappear. But Christopher Pissarides sees reason for optimism. In this Q&A with Maayan Arad, he says that the need to deal with new technologies will lead to new jobs, with new skills in demand. We can no longer learn a skill early on and apply it to our jobs for the rest of our lives.


Maayan Arad and Christopher A. Pissarides

18 September 2023


LSE Business Review


https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2023/09/18/christopher-pissarides-the-more-i-study-ai-the-more-optimistic-i-get-about-the-labour-market/

This work is published under POID and the CEP's Labour markets programme.

This publication comes under the following CEP theme: Unemployment and job search