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Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan — WisdomDeck honest review
Honest review · Entrepreneurship

Humans Need Not Apply

by Jerry Kaplan

A Stanford AI veteran on how automation threatens jobs and concentrates wealth, with proposals for job mortgages and public benefit indices. Early and measured.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Automation shifts wealth.
  2. Policy must adapt.
  3. Build the safety net.

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