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AI startup CEO Brendan Foody says there will be more jobs in the future, pointing to new roles like AI training. Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu disagrees if we continue on our current trajectory. He fears unemployment could triple in the next decade if nothing is done. #futureofwork #a

What does the AI revolution mean for the future of work? Correspondent Jon Wertheim puts the technology to the test in the 60 Minutes studio. #ai #futureofwork

Economist Daron Acemoglu says AI should be designed to help people do their jobs better, not make them expendable. He also suggests interventions like a tax code that incentivizes hiring real people. “Because the future is so uncertain, because the future is so much subject to our choice and agency,

“What you just described is B.S.,” says Daron Acemoglu, Nobel Prize-winning professor at MIT, pushing back on the idea that training AI models will create a huge new sector of work. “The number of people they're employing in these positions is small relative to the number of people who will be repla

Typical AI trainers at Mercor can earn $20 to $200 an hour. Some workers tell 60 Minutes they are happy with the work, but many more say that the gig work is unpredictable and it’s no substitute for a full-time job with benefits. #ai #futureofwork #aitraining

An Ohio law firm teamed up with Stanford University to build AI versions of some of its partners. “AI is never going to walk into the courtroom and give an opening statement to the jury. But it helps us have additional tools to use as we prepare that opening statement,” explains Kim Herlihy, a trial

“I think AI is going to have a profound impact on every profession,” says Clara Shih, who oversaw major AI divisions at Salesforce and Meta and now runs a nonprofit helping young people navigate this new economy. “I think, you know, sugarcoating this AI utopia—maybe we'll get there, but there's a lo

“If you're training AI to do what people have spent years and years perfecting in their careers… aren't you necessarily endangering human work?” 60 Minutes’ Jon Wertheim asks Brendan Foody, CEO of AI training startup Mercor. “I think that you're changing human work,” Foody says. “It might not necess

A winemaker, a music producer and a physician tell 60 Minutes about their work teaching AI about their fields. They don’t believe they’re training themselves out of a career. Music producer Robbie Hiser believes that creative work like great songwriting will always require the human touch. “AI doesn

“Everything that humans want AI to be able to do, we want to teach it how to do that,” says Brendan Foody, CEO of Mercor. Mercor trains AI models like ChatGPT and Claude. The company has grown from about 20 employees last January to more than 400 today, plus more than 100,000 freelancers. #ai #futur

Research points to slower hiring and declining wages for young people in fields highly exposed to AI, like software development. Jobs that previously required dozens of people can now be done with one to three people using AI agents, said Clara Shih, who oversaw major AI divisions at Salesforce and

Could AI take your job? And which kinds of work are most at risk? This Sunday on 60 Minutes, Jon Wertheim examines how AI is changing the workplace and why this shift could be different from technological revolutions of the past. #ai #futureofwork