AI and the Workforce: Displacement, Augmentation, and the Distribution of Gains

AI productivity gains are real. Who captures them is a design choice that gets made before deployment - and most organizations aren't making it deliberately.

This 31 page research synthesis build a 4 quadrant framework mapping every affected worker to an outcome determined by two variables: task frontier proximity (market-determined) and implementation design (yours to control). It ground the framework in the peer reviewed evidence on displacement, augmentation, and the J-curve - and delivers a 3 question diagnostic that surfaces which path your organization is on before momentum makes it structural.

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