Brendan Foody

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I believe there's certainly going to be many more jobs in 10 years than there are today.

But there's also going to be a lot of job displacement along the way.

Amidst all of these layoffs, I think the most important question is understanding what jobs is AI able to do and what jobs is AI not able to do.

And so we're building a ton of initiatives such as the AI Productivity Index or APEX that are becoming the industry standard and answering that question of measuring across all the different popular job categories that people talking about ranging from consultants to investment bankers to lawyers to software engineers.

What are the actual tasks within those that AI can automate and what are the tasks that it can't?

Definitely.

Well, even another example on that is on Apex, the frontier model right now is at about 40%.

And 12 months ago, the frontier model was 01, which was scoring 1%.

And so that's been the progress of the last 12 months.

And obviously, we expect it to continue and be fairly significant.

But I think that the key thing is that everyone underestimates the elasticity for demand and increased productivity in the economy.

Ultimately, over the last

250 years, we've increased productivity by 25X, equivalent to automating about 96% of someone's job.

And during every technology revolution ranging from the agricultural revolution to the industrial revolution to the computer revolution, people feared that there would be this enormous job displacement because of the lump of labor fallacy, where people assume that there was a fixed amount of things that had to be done.

And when we made people more productive, that would all of a sudden mean that there were fewer jobs.

Yet 250 years later, there's more jobs than ever before.

And it's because we have no shortage of problems to solve as a society, right?

We still need to solve climate change and cure cancer and do all of these other new things.

Well, the thing I agree with you is about displacement.

I agree there's going to be a very significant amount of displacement, but I also think that the economy is becoming much more effective at creating new job categories and allocating new labor.

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