10.2 - Labor Replacement
 Prof. Jack Reilly
 S2026

🧠 Think:
How do we re-organize society and the economy in light of AI-sparked labor market disruption? Or do we even need to - will the labor market take care of itself?
📖 Read:
•	Frey and Osborne, 2017. “The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?”
•	Frey and Osborne, 2023. “Generative Al and the Future of Work: A Reappraisal”
📺 Watch:
•	CGP Grey, “Humans Need Not Apply”
🎧 Listen:
•	Tyrangiel, 2026. “America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs” Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson.
🌐 Browse:
•	Tyrangiel, 2026. “America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs” The Atlantic
•	Perhaps AI won’t be as destructive to labor markets as we think?
–	Edwards, “AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030” Ars Technica
–	Pethokoukis, “Another Promising Data Point on the Productivity Impact of AI” AEIdeas
•	Acemoglu and Johnson, “Learning from Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and labor in the early industrial revolution – and in the age of AI”
📚 Additional Resources:
•	Stiefenhofer, 2025. “Artificial General Intelligence and the End of Human Employment: The Need to Renegotiate the Social Contract”
•	Thompson, 2015. “A World Without Work”. The Atlantic
•	Two additional podcasts from the Plain English podcast:
–	Mollick, 2025. “What Happens When AI Learns to Do Our Jobs”. Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson.
–	Korinek, 2025. “How Superintelligent AI Could Upend Work and Politics”. Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson.
•	Books:
–	Mollick, 2024. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. Portfolio Books.
–	Frey, 2019. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
–	Korinek, 2024. “Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work” Oxford Handbook of AI Governance
•	Articles
–	Lobel, 2024. “The Future of Work in the Era of AI”
–	Felten, “How will Language Modelers like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries?”
–	Generative AI for Economic Research
–	Korinek, “Economic Policy Challenges for the Age of AI”
–	Gottweis et al, 2025. “Towards an AI co-scientist”. Google Research.
–	Pew Research, 2025. Workers Experience with Chatbots and their Jobs
📝 Submit:
•	Discussion question to course chat
Tip
•	“📖 Read”, “🎧 Listen”, and/or “📺 Watch” items are required content for the day, and should be read/heard/watched before class on that day.
•	“🌐 Browse” items should be briefly looked at but do not need to be read deeply unless you want to
•	“📚 Additional Resources” do not need to be looked at; they are there to serve, if useful, as further references for your debates, final projects, and general edification later.