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Top economist Brad DeLong to recent college grads: Don’t blame AI for job struggles—blame the sputtering economy

Top economist Brad DeLong to recent college grads: Don’t blame AI for job struggles—blame the sputtering economy

As recent college graduates face one of the toughest job markets in years, Berkeley economist and voluble Substacker Brad DeLong has a message for those struggling to land their first full-time gig: Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are not to blame. Larger forces are at work. DeLong, a professor at UC Berkeley and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, argued …

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