AI Won’t Take Your Job — It’ll Take Your Leverage

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People ask which jobs are safe from AI the way passengers on a sinking ship ask which deck is safest. It is the wrong unit of analysis. “Job” is a legal and HR container; “work” is a bundle of tasks; “tasks” are what automation eats. Generative AI does not need to “replace your profession” to destroy your job. It only needs to replace the parts of your week that justify … Read the rest

When Size Matters… in Reverse

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People love big things. Big cars, big houses, big countries. Something in the human brain still worships scale, as if the mammoth that impressed our ancestors is still walking somewhere behind us. And so, many citizens will proudly point at the map and say: “Look how enormous it is — this is greatness.” They say it with the same confidence with which a smoker says his cough is “just from … Read the rest