@tamimasey: A friend at Amazon told me he is training an AI agent to replace his own role within the next 2–3 years. His entire tea…
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A friend at Amazon is training an AI agent to replace his role within 2-3 years, reflecting a broader trend of employees automating their own jobs. The tweet also quotes a former OpenAI researcher on AI companies' plans to automate themselves.
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A friend at Amazon told me he is training an AI agent to replace his own role within the next 2–3 years. His entire team has been given the same objective: automate enough of their work to make their current jobs redundant.
In effect, they are training their own replacements. That is the reality of this technological transition.
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): “Anthropic and OpenAI, in particular, are trying to automate themselves. They are trying to make it so that they no longer need many human employees.”
- Former-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, and one of the world’s leading AI forecasters
“Instead, they would have a large
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