Bridger Pennington argues AI is creating jobs, not eliminating them. The Economist reports a million new U.S. jobs linked to AI, while data-center construction is driving demand for electricians and HVAC technicians. Pennington presents Jeff Bezos's view that AI will lower limits on human imagination, letting anyone with an idea build it.
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According to this Economist article, AI has created a million new jobs in the USānot taken away, created. Now I know there's the doomer mentality that AI is going to ruin us all, and maybe that's true, but at least so far we're actually seeing a net gain, net positive growth from AI. This is a few days ago from West Virginia saying how much data centers actually making them rich. This is from A16Z, probably the most notable venture capital firm in the world, saying electrician and HVAC jobs are accelerating immensely. And if you zoom in on this chart, you can see since 2022. Growth for HVAC, electrical contractors, etc., has grown immensely because most data center buildout is with contractors. These people are going to actually build the actual data centers and other AI infrastructure. Now you might say, well, hey, that's just the infrastructure buildout. It only happened one time. But also, I love this from Jeff Bezos. He said this in a recent interview: I know there's a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant. But I totally disagree on this point of view. He says AI will make it possible for people to identify problems. Quote: Today we are limited not by our imaginations, but what we can actually. Do. Everyone in the room, he said, has an idea for a business or product they wish they could build. It stayed in their head because it was too hard and it wasn't worth it. If we can accelerate the dream-build loop, all the ideas will then become possible. This is the abundance mindset of AI. There's also the doomer mindset that maybe everything's gonna go to crap, but the abundance mindset is this: that throughout history, to be a great thinker like a Galileo or a Mozart or an Isaac Newton, you had to be born in the right place with the right education and right family and and right food and right support to be able to think like a Galileo. Well, nowadays it doesn't matter if you're born in India, the United States, China, Africa, freaking the North Pole. If you can tap into AGI, which launched last week, and you're a Mozart-level brain or an Isaac Newton-level brain, we should have now hundreds of Galileos, hundreds of Isaac Newtons on Earth right now that can tap into superintelligence and build stuff that we never even thought was possible. That's the idea of superabundance. But yes, maybe we will have the Terminator outcome. I guess we will see. But I more subscribe to the superabundance mindset that this is actually going to unlock the human race, that majority of our history has been constrained by food, water, education, and other just day-to-day needs. This is a pretty cool time to be alive. Comment down below what you think though. Are we in a superabundance mentality or era? Are we more in the Terminator era? What do you guys think?
