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Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs" (JPE 128(6), 2020, pp

set aside as

EXCLUDED BY ATTRIBUTION

the researcher's note

Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs" (JPE 128(6), 2020, pp. 2188–2244). One more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment-to-population ratio by about 0.2 percentage points and wages by about 0.42%, across US commuting zones. The robot stock is the IFR's industrial-robot count — hand-programmed controllers, the owner's own opening example. This is the single most important exclusion in the cluster: it is the best-measured labour effect of factory automation in existence, and no source ties it to a system whose decision procedure was fit to data. The owner's "robots in factories, −1: jobs displaced against goods made cheaper" is, on the definition as written, not an AI entry at all.

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researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, robots-gig-work

received

2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00

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impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-robots-gig-work.md

Rulings, in order

1. 2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00 · researcherexclude-attribution — Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs" (JPE 128(6), 2020, pp. 2188–2244). One more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment-to-population ratio by about 0.2 percentage points and wages by about 0.42%, across US commuting zones. The robot stock is the IFR's industrial-robot count — hand-programmed controllers, the owner's own opening example. This is the single most important exclusion in the cluster: it is the best-measured labour effect of factory automation in existence, and no source ties it to a system whose decision procedure was fit to data. The owner's "robots in factories, −1: jobs displaced against goods made cheaper" is, on the definition as written, not an AI entry at all.

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