With so much AI buzz coursing through the air these days, there are plenty of sensationalist claims about the tech’s affect on the job market.

One prevailing narrative — and arguably the driving financial incentive behind AI — is that AI is set to automate everyone’s jobs, or at least a huge portion of them. Whether that would be for better or worse is another question, as scholars have observed that mass joblessness combined with monopoly capitalism isn’t exactly a recipe for utopia.

Still, more optimistic voices — those of tech CEOs, investors, and other market players — argue that AI automation will kick off an era of unimaginable prosperity for humankind.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, for example, seems to think AI productivity gains will completely change everyone’s relationship to work

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