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Nobody Wants to Say This About AI | MOONSHOTS

26 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker challenges the audience to be brutally honest about the disruptive potential of AI for white‑collar work. He poses a thought experiment: if AI could make a typical white‑collar employee ten times more productive, what is the probability that the job could be fully replaced within two years? Citing a DeepMind representative named Peter, he reports a 99% likelihood, while Alexander Amini of Liquid AI and Themis cautions that this figure applies to today, not two years out. The speaker accuses the room of soft‑selling AI benefits out of fear of public backlash, points out that only 30% claim higher revenue from AI, and questions whether the promised productivity gains will actually translate into new jobs, emphasizing the uncertainty of the timescale for job creation.

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Be honest, just totally honest, because no one's being honest about this. If you take a random white-collar worker today, and I'll give you a lot of buffer, say 2 years from today, and I use AI to do their job, and my target is they're 10 times more productive, what are the odds that that randomly selected job can be replaced 2 years from today? And Peter said, from DeepMind at Google, he thought, and he gave a very thoughtful answer, and it came out at like 99%. Alexander Amini, the founder of Liquid AI and Themis, Alexander said, yeah, but that's today. That's not 2 years from today. So I look at the room, I'm like, guys, what are the implications of that? 30% of you who use AI claim to have higher revenue. Are you kidding me? AI can do everybody's job. Like, what are you talking about? Like, why are you soft selling this so hard? It's cuz you're scared. You're, you're worried that you're gonna worry everybody and you're gonna have mass uproar in the streets. But what's the truth? Like, tell us the truth. And the truth is, yeah, you can get literally 10 times more done per dollar invested in salaries. Does that mean more jobs? Now a lot of people are saying, well, we're just gonna create new jobs. Like, yeah, but on what timescale? You know, it's just, just crazy. It's so understated.