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How will AI affect workers? Tech waves of the past show how unpredictable the path can be

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
imagePersonal computers started an information technology revolution. Will AI bring similarly dramatic changes? Bettmann via Getty Images

The explosion of interest in artificial intelligence has drawn attention not only to the astonishing capacity of algorithms to mimic humans but to the reality that these algorithms could displace many humans in their...

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