Christopher Pissarides:‘The more I study AI, the more optimistic I get about the labour market’

The rapid developments in artificial intelligence have been causing fears that many jobs will disappear. But Christopher Pissarides sees reason for optimism. In this Q&A with Maayan Arad, he says that the need to deal with new technologies will lead to new jobs, with new skills in demand. We can no longer learn a skill early on and apply it to our jobs for the rest of our lives.