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The Canary Institute just put out a working paper with a new approach towards analyzing the economic impact of AI. Headline finding is that over half of task-time in the economy is accessible by AI today
Blog post:
https://canaryinstitute.ai/blog/measuring-ais-economic-reach/
Working paper:
https://canaryinstitute.ai/research/task-exposure/
We plan to build this into a longer program of work, getting both the economics community and policymakers to take things seriously.