The future of AI, work, and the world
Well, the joke’s on us. As it turns out, machines can do all of those things better, faster, or at the very least cheaper than humans can. The Pew Research Center, the Brookings Institution, and McKinsey and Company all forecast that the workers most likely to see “exposure” to generative AI are more educated and in higher-paid fields such as compu
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Aside from the doomers who believe that AI will kill us all and the techno-utopians who believe it will solve all of our problems, there are three main ways that people seem to be thinking about AI.
At one extreme, you might fear that AI will take your job. Certainly, you’ve read as much in the press, and it does seem to be getting better and bette... See more
At one extreme, you might fear that AI will take your job. Certainly, you’ve read as much in the press, and it does seem to be getting better and bette... See more
This shift has ushered in what Every’s Dan Shipper calls an allocation economy, where the value of work increasingly hinges not on traditional labor but on how we allocate scarce resources—time, attention, and focus. In this new paradigm, the question becomes less about what AI can do and more about how we choose to use it, what we allow it to repl... See more