Over a reasonable time horizon, eliminating the human labor bubble is the single biggest AI opportunity we face. In most segments, the race to do that seriously has just begun.

There is appeal, no doubt, in the attempts to automate away entire job functions or professions such as lawyers or radiologists. But there is perhaps even greater appeal in a straightforward, bottom-up approach to identifying pockets of replaceable expensive human toil: the thousands of emails that must get categorized and responded to, the... See more

There is no better place to deploy an AI-powered solution than where a local human labor bubble exists.

Spotting local human labor bubbles. Rather than fear the destruction of jobs by AI, it would be more constructive to embrace the idea that vast swathes of human knowledge work are systematically overvalued and have been for a very long time.

The human labor bubble. To understand the economic landscape and identify where the next pockets of opportunity lie, we need to talk about us (humans) and what we do all day. In a lot of cases, an honest assessment of knowledge work would reveal the "human labor bubble": the systemic overvaluation of routine, low-impact tasks that consume massive... See more