Closer AI Gets
The author leans on a useful framing: professions are bundles of thousands of tasks, and automation consumes them piecemeal, pushing humans up the complexity ladder. In our view the logic holds only partially — history does support task-shifting, but there's no law that residual work keeps getting harder, since today's models are already chewing through the complex judgment tasks once considered safely human.… more
It's also worth noting the source: Foody runs Mercor, which profits from expert labor training AI, so the "humans stay, just on harder work" narrative conveniently flatters his own market. Good conversation starter, but treat the promo framing with a grain of salt.
The closer AI gets to automating an entire profession, the more complex the work gets.
Finance alone consists of thousands of individual tasks, each with its own complexity and context.
@jefrankle explains why he believes AI will fundamentally change the work humans do on the latest episode of The Frontier.
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X — Brendan Foody
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