This is part of a series, ‘Economists Exchange’, featuring conversations between top FT commentators and leading economists
Globalisation and the advent of office computing hollowed out America’s middle class — devastating communities built on manufacturing and devaluing administrative skills, to the benefit of a small elite.
Generative AI could help redress the balance, giving people without a college education the tools they need to do more expert work, win higher wages and close the gap with top earners. This is the optimistic message of David Autor, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose previous work on the so-called China shock underpinned a rethinking of US trade policy.
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