AI threatens jobs that can be 'unbundled'

""The effect of AI depends on how costly it is to break the bundle. In strong-bundle occupations, where tasks are not independently reallocable, AI improves performance inside the job, but does not remove the human from the bundle, consequently, protecting jobs.""

""Jobs cannot be unbundled when there is a high coordination cost to separating their tasks, such as when one person must assume liability for all the tasks, when performing one task improves performance at another, or when a shared context is needed to perform all the tasks.""

AI threatens jobs that can be unbundled, especially in IT, as tasks easily performed by AI are at higher risk. Economists Luis Garicano, Jin Li, and Yanhui Wu indicate that jobs with tasks that require human input are less vulnerable. They note that in strong-bundle occupations, where tasks are interdependent, AI enhances job performance without eliminating human roles. Jobs with high coordination costs for task separation are less likely to be unbundled, thus protecting employment.

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