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Panelists Discuss AI’s Potential Impacts, for Better or Worse, on the Economy

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Artificial intelligence could flatten your company hierarchy, improve global agriculture, and give you the perfect vacation. It could also leave you permanently jobless, destroy your region’s economy, and cause mass social upset.Those high-stakes defined the mood as panelists at the third annual TIME100 AI Impact Dinner grappled with the dilemmas of machine intelligence in San Francisco on Monday night.Chief among them: whether AI will cause mass job loss, a new jobs boom, or both at once.“At the beginning of the century, our company,” said Glen Fogel, chief executive of travel conglomerate Booking Holdings, which sponsored the event, “had human translators,…

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