Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute who has studied Uber drivers, told Business Insider that the lack of certain data makes it difficult to measure driver displacement.
“We don’t know how much, we don’t know when, we don’t know where,” Wells told Business Insider. Researchers would need data such as utilization and wait times to identify the effects, she said.
Part of the challenge lies in the nature of gig work. Wells said that because drivers are independent contractors rather than employees, robotaxi displacement may not show up as a measurable decline in employment.
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