{"id":945000,"date":"2025-07-09T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=945000"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:04:39","slug":"chilling-ai-prediction-a-mad-max-like-future-for-jobs-may-be-coming-top-economist-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/chilling-ai-prediction-a-mad-max-like-future-for-jobs-may-be-coming-top-economist-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling AI prediction: A Mad Max-like future for jobs may be coming; top economist warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world in profound ways\u2014from improving medical diagnostics to powering chatbots and self-driving cars. But not all of its impacts are positive. In a Business Insider interview on the \u201cPossible\u201d podcast, MIT economist David Autor sounded a serious caution: AI could turn our labour market into something resembling a Mad Max wasteland. While this doesn\u2019t mean total job loss, it does mean something equally alarming\u2014the devaluation of once-valuable skills, pushing many into poorly paid work with limited advancement, as reported by Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>This warning comes amid broader studies, such as a Salesforce projection that up to 23% of the workforce could be redeployed due to AI in the next two years (Business Insider, citing Salesforce). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world in profound ways\u2014from improving medical diagnostics to powering chatbots and self-driving cars. But not all of its impacts are positive. In a Business Insider interview on the \u201cPossible\u201d podcast, MIT economist David Autor sounded a serious caution: AI could turn our labour market into something resembling a Mad Max wasteland. While this doesn\u2019t mean total job loss, it does mean something equally alarming\u2014the devaluation of once-valuable skills, pushing many into poorly paid work with limited advancement, as reported by Business Insider. This warning comes amid broader studies, such as a Salesforce projection that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}