Despite the long pattern of net job growth, some prominent economists have predicted that this time will be different. One of the leading proponents of the view that the upcoming onslaught of AI-based automation will be a net job killer has been Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson. He argues that, unlike previous technology-driven transitions, the latest form of automation will result in a loss of more jobs than it creates.[80] Economists who take this view see the current situation as the culmination of several successive waves of change.
