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Altman: "Nobody Knows What to Do" About AI Labor Displacement
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At BlackRock Infrastructure Summit, Altman admitted AI is breaking the labor-capital balance: "If it becomes difficult in many jobs to outwork a GPU, this changes the equation." He acknowledged being stumped: "If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now." The starkest public acknowledgment yet from OpenAI's CEO that economic disruption is real and unsolved.
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