Learning when to turn to AI is itself a skill that improves with practice, analogous to how people developed the instinct to Google things; the speaker keeps a chat window open to bounce ideas and uses AI for quick tasks like turning a photographed table into a bar chart in minutes.

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David Autor

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knowing actually when to turn to AI for things is also like not obvious. It's something you get better at.

Source

A Threat Bigger than China | MIT Economist David AutorReid Hoffman
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:32:24 PM

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