Does OpenAI’s Deep Research Put Me Out of a Job?

The reality of a technology that can perform “economically valuable tasks” occurs when either:

1. There is a new task to perform (like how computers helped us code).


2. It automates an existing type of labor (dishwashers made it so we didn’t have to wash dishes).


3. It makes an existing form of labor more productive (hammers helped us construct homes faster).

We are very close to needing relatively few people to do jobs that require deep research.

The key point here is that applications disrupt tasks , whilefundamental technologies remake economies.