@chrmanning: Will there be an AI jobpocalypse? My view gyrates wildly—depending on my mood and who I talked to recently I think this…
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Chris Manning reflects on the uncertainty around AI's impact on jobs, citing Dan Shipper's observation that AI agents have not reduced human work but increased demand, leading to more hiring.
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Will there be an AI jobpocalypse?
My view gyrates wildly—depending on my mood and who I talked to recently
I think this is totally reasonable
No one in tech has special training or insight on future employment trends
Economists have some training, but they’re uncertain too 🤔
Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper): We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.
And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.
I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand
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