To me Owen's proposition in this article that we get the "worst of both worlds" of automation seems obviously contradictory.
Either AI had modest productivity gains, and we can't automate that many jobs, or we do automate many jobs and productivity skyrockets.
The combination of low/no productivity gain that still causes mass unemployment seems hard to defend on logical grounds. Were're the redundancies going to come from in that case?
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