Will AI Take Your Job - or Make You Better at It? | Lindsey Raymond, Microsoft Research

Is generative AI replacing workers—or helping them thrive?

In this episode of Agents of Tech, we explore how AI is transforming the global workforce. Economist Lindsey Raymond (Microsoft Research), co-author of a groundbreaking study with Erik Brynjolfsson and Danielle Li, joins us to unpack how AI tools are boosting productivity, equalizing skills, and reshaping the modern job.

We cover:

• AI’s impact on job creation and automation (World Economic Forum’s 2025 forecast)
• Why AI helps junior workers most—but might demotivate top performers
• How “editor over producer” is becoming the new workplace model
• Whether AI narrows or widens global inequality
• What skills will remain uniquely human
• How AI tools can power faster business scaling—and redesign the nature of jobs🎧

Featuring:

• Lindsey Raymond, Microsoft Research
• Autria Godfrey, Laila Rizvi & Stephen Horn, Agents of Tech hosts

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Papers and Reports:

• https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/140/2/889/7990658?login=false
• https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4cS-BhDGARIsABg4_J3j8i_TwZLC_yzLxuOzrfHphxgBT02X0IWMRTUUYM27PICz30xiJRsaAvEUEALw_wcB

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