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High School - College
13 classes this month
Subjects: AP Economics Current Events Economics
Topics: Income Specialization

Will artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the jobs of the future? This Page One Economics describes how AI works and how it could impact industries, create new opportunities, and transform job tasks across skill levels. Read about real-world examples and reference recent research describing many cases in which AI will be a complement to or a substitute for labor. Results show that while AI may increase productivity of all workers, the largest benefits seem to go to the least skilled.

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Standard 6: Specialization
Grade 8 Benchmark

1. Labor productivity is output per worker.

Standard 15: Economic Growth
Grade 8 Benchmarks

3. Technological change results from an advance in knowledge leading to new and improved goods and services and better ways of producing them.
4. Increases in productivity can result from advances in technology or increases in physical or human capital.

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