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  schema:headline "Beyond Job Displacement: How AI Could Reshape the Value of Human Expertise"@en ;
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  schema:alternativeHeadline "How the expertise framework changes AI labor-market analysis"@en ;
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    "The Puzzle of Divergent Fates"@en,
    "The Expertise Framework"@en,
    "Seeing AI Through the Expertise Lens"@en,
    "Transformative AI and the Future of Expertise"@en ;
  schema:abstract """The paper argues that AI should be analyzed through its effect on the value of human expertise within occupations, not only through the number of jobs or tasks it automates."""@en ;
  schema:articleBody """David Autor and Neil Thompson argue that automation has divergent labor-market effects depending on whether it removes an occupation's more expert or more inexpert tasks. Their expertise framework explains why wages and employment can move in opposite directions, why some occupations become more selective and better paid while others become more accessible and lower paid, and why AI may democratize opportunity in some domains while amplifying inequality in others. The paper contrasts this with simpler task-quantity views, uses evidence from decades of occupational data, and extends the framework to near-term cases such as software engineering and health care. It then considers a more radical transformative-AI scenario in which labor scarcity may disappear, creating challenges of social organization, income distribution, and democratic stability."""@en ;
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