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• Jensen Huang Korrent 26 Jul The narrative that AI destroys jobs is exactly backwards: AI automates tasks, and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The evidence would show that and it makes perfect sense that AI and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But…
• Noah Smith x.com 7 Sept For Labor Day, I wrote a post about how everyone expects AI to be a job-killer, and AI keeps refusing to kill jobs.
• Jasmine Sun Newsletter 9 Aug 🌻 abdul el-sayed on AI
• Noah Smith Newsletter 12 Aug Roundup #86: Unintended consequences
• Casey Newton Bluesky 28 Aug Talked to former Meta and Salesforce exec Clara Shih about how AI agents "radicalized" her into quitting her Big Tech job to try to help people who may lose their jobs to AI: www.platformer.news/clara-shih-n...
• Zvi Mowshowitz Korrent 3 Sept Public fear of AI-driven mass job loss is itself a harm to the labor market, separate from whether the job losses actually happen. The people being worried is in and of itself a problem for jobs.
• Casey Newton YouTube 19 May Why Doomers Are Wrong about AI and Jobs with Google's James Manyika
• Gergely Orosz Newsletter 14 Jul What is “loop engineering?”
• Gabriel Weinberg Bluesky 7 Jun A "patchwork" of AI laws is a feature, not a bug gabrielweinberg.com/p/a-patchwor... If AI violates our privacy, takes our jobs, and potentially can destroy the world, then it’s too big for Congress to regulate alone
• Jasmine Sun x.com 14 May AI is arriving in China while the country is already facing a youth unemployment crisis I spent 2 weeks there, and wrote up notes on what happens when there's not enough knowledge work to go around — ft. "full-time…
• Steve Yegge Korrent 11 Mar The engineers laid off in AI's name will mostly not find jobs again, they are the first of many, and nobody has a plan for them. I'm mad at Amazon for laying off 16,000 people and blaming AI without an AI strategy for it. Those people are not going to be able to find jobs, by and large, and they're the first of many to come and nobody has a plan…
• Dario Amodei Korrent 1 Jan AI could displace half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years, even while it accelerates economic growth. This is a topic that I warned about very publicly in 2025 , where I predicted that AI could displace half of all entry-level white collar jobs in the next 1–5 years, even as it accelerates economic growth and scientific…
• Sam Altman Korrent 9 Feb 2025 People will find new kinds of useful work as AI advances, though it will not resemble the jobs of today. We will find new things to do, new ways to be useful to each other, and new ways to compete, but they may not look very much like the jobs of today.
• Sam Altman Korrent 18 Mar 2024 The useful question about AI and work is not what percentage of jobs it will replace but what percentage of tasks it will do, over ever-longer time horizons. The way I think about it is not what percent of jobs AI will do, but what percent of tasks will AI do on over one time horizon. So if you think of all of the five-second tasks in the economy, five minute tasks, the…