Note that: this is only within the Danish labor market. In my experience, Europeans (broad generalization) tend to be somewhat conservative on the digital innovation front, fearful of breaking...
A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024
Note that:
this is only within the Danish labor market. In my experience, Europeans (broad generalization) tend to be somewhat conservative on the digital innovation front, fearful of breaking things. Americans are more willing to break things and make mistakes in the name of profit and productivity. This is reflected in startup culture: Americans tend to see business failures and mistakes as learning experiences, whereas Europeans tend to see them as black marks.
and this is 1–2 years ago, which is a century in AI progress. Now we have thinking models and search grounding, and apps are increasingly offering AI interfaces (either built-in, fine-tuned AIs or MCPs), so AIs are beginning to leave leave the chat box and interact with things outside of it.
So I think that the study's findings are very local and time-specific, not generalizable across time and space and cultures.
Jevon’s paradox seems related, but I don’t think that’s what the researchers are describing in this article. The extra work as not due to increased demand as the paradox states, but comes from the...
Jevon’s paradox seems related, but I don’t think that’s what the researchers are describing in this article.
The study revealed that AI chatbots actually created new job tasks for 8.4 percent of workers, including some who did not use the tools themselves, offsetting potential time savings. For example, many teachers now spend time detecting whether students use ChatGPT for homework, while other workers review AI output quality or attempt to craft effective prompts.
The extra work as not due to increased demand as the paradox states, but comes from the overhead of checking the AI’s output.
Note that:
So I think that the study's findings are very local and time-specific, not generalizable across time and space and cultures.
This effect is called the Jevons paradox.
Jevon’s paradox seems related, but I don’t think that’s what the researchers are describing in this article.
The extra work as not due to increased demand as the paradox states, but comes from the overhead of checking the AI’s output.
Shrek's law
Relevant
xkcdCalvin and Hobbes.