@levie: The negative AI jobs outcome just continues to not be happening as some predicted. A large portion of enterprises I tal…
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The article argues that AI is not leading to job losses as predicted; instead, companies are hiring more in new roles like engineering and sales, with Jevons paradox in effect.
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The negative AI jobs outcome just continues to not be happening as some predicted. A large portion of enterprises I talk with -across industries- are still hiring, just with a tilt in the kind of roles they’re going after.
They’re finding that AI is letting them do more, and Jevons paradox is actually playing out. They’re hiring engineers to go after problems they couldn’t tackle before. They’re hiring in sales because they can go deeper in client relationships now with the help of AI. They’re hiring in internal FDEs to help them deploy AI. And so on.
Anyone using AI merely to cut costs eventually just gets outcompeted by companies that use AI to better serve their customers and drive more breakthroughs in their business.
Could this trend change at some point? Sure. But for now this appears to be the trajectory we’re on.
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