AI Could Enable Humans to Work 4 Days a Week, Says Nobel Prize-Winning Economist

The ChatGPT revolution opens the door to a four-day work week by providing a major productivity boost for swathes of jobs, according to a Nobel Prize-winning labor economist. Christopher Pissarides--a professor at the London School of Economics who specializes in the impact of automation on work--said the labor market can adapt quickly enough to artificial intelligence-backed chatbots. His remark may tamp down concerns that rapid advances in technology could bring mass job losses. "I'm very optimistic that we could increase productivity," he said in an interview at a conference in Glasgow. "We could increase our well-being generally from work and we could take off more leisure. We could move to a four-day week easily."