In this episode, Ben sits down with David Autor, professor of economics at MIT, to explore how technology transforms work at every level from individual tasks to entire industries.

Topics covered:

• Why transformative technologies require organizational reinvention, not just adoption
• The "expertise framework": how the same automation can be a force multiplier for one worker and a threat to another, depending on where their specialized skills sit
• Occupational licensing as a double-edged sword: consumer protection vs. a barrier to adaptation
• Whether AI will complement high-skilled workers, substitute for low-skilled ones, or eventually do both, and what the evidence actually shows so far
• The skills that will remain valuable
• Why we are dangerously under-invested in helping worke ...