Boring tasks, or tasks that we are not good at, can be outsourced to AI, leaving good and high-value tasks to us, or at least to AI-human Cyborg teams. This fits into historical patterns of automation, where the bundles of tasks that make up jobs change as new technologies are developed. Accountants once were in charge of calculating numbers by

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AI agents, monitored by humans, could potentially drastically reduce the need for human work while expanding the economy. The adjustment to this shift, if it were to occur, is hard to imagine. It will require a major rethinking of how we approach work and society. Shortened workweeks, universal basic income, and other policy changes might become a

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