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When ChatGPT was introduced to the general public at the end of last year, many people began to fear that artificial intelligence (A.I.) might soon make their job obsolete.

Of course, horse-and-buggy-makers are gone, and farming requires something like one-hundredth of the labor input it used to. That's a good thing: Professions have gone extinct for centuries. New jobs emerge in the wake of old ones. A reshuffled labor market requires workers to gain different skills, while companies focus on solving different problems. That can be tough if you're in your mid-50s and on the receiving end of that technological shift, but it's not a catastrophic obstacle for economies at large.

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