Lump of labour fallacy

And so in all these ways, we might actually see a version of Jevin's paradox being brought about by AI in healthcare.

And then second, you write that concerns about AI-driven job loss are sometimes influenced by the lump of labor fallacy.

You've begun to answer this already.

How could AI begin to change the type and the amount of work to be done in medicine?

That's right.

So the lump of labor fallacy is this idea that there's a fixed amount of work or a lump of labor that needs to be done in any given sector or in the economy as a whole.

And by that logic, you might think that if AI is doing more of the work, that less work would be needed to be done by humans.

But in fact, we know that the work that we do, the type, the amount, the ways in which we work, that changes over time in response to new technologies.