Who Will Adapt Best to AI Disruption?

The podcast addresses AI's potential to disrupt jobs, emphasizing the importance of workers' adaptability alongside job vulnerability. A new study introduces the Adaptive Capacity Index, considering factors like financial resources, age, geographic density, and skill transferability. While the study finds that many AI-exposed workers are well-equipped for job transitions, it highlights concern for the 6.1 million workers, majorly women in administrative and clerical roles, who face high exposure and low adaptive capacity, concentrated in college towns and state capitals. The host argues that the study offers valuable insights for policy triage during the AI transition, especially for the most vulnerable groups, even with the possibility of structural changes to work.