Benedict Evans

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1,906 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 4 Jun

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Or anyway, we can't.

You can't kind of look at a senior partner at a law firm and say, well, 17% of their work could be automated.

Like this is horseshit.

You can't do that.

I think the other side of the fallacy though is to talk about taxi drivers.

So, you know, if we've been having this conversation in 1997, it's like the Uber test.

Imagine we're in 1997, what will be crushed by the internet?

Well, newspapers will be fine.

They'll just, cause they'll save money on the printing bills.

This is like a joke, but people said that.

Newspaper, the internet will be great for newspapers.

Their printing bills will go down.

Well, yes, but no.

But the other side is, well, obviously our taxi drivers, you couldn't automate that with the internet.

It's got nothing to do with the internet.

Maybe you'd have internet booking, but like, no, that's not going to change anything.

And of course it completely changes the whole thing.

And so like the example I saw the other day was like things that won't be affected by AI personal trainers.

Okay.

So I take my iPhone and I balance it on the metal piece with the camera pointed at me.

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