Matt Wolfe argues that replacing jobs with AI misses the point. The real win is using AI to handle mundane tasks so people can focus on what they actually do well, improving efficiency without cutting the workforce.
Basically, so many people have been trying to use AI to replace jobs, but if you start using AI as a way to, like, sort of enhance jobs, they find that the effectiveness of those people is way better than when you use AI to replace jobs. Like, the efficiency and the output and that sort of thing is, like, dramatically improved when they're using AI to actually, like, improve the things and also hone in on just doing the things that are, like, their core competencies and letting AI do all the mundane stuff. So, you know, I think that's sort of the next phase. I mean, there might be a phase beyond that where it's just kind of like, all right, AI and the robots do everything, and we just get to travel and live our best life. That might be like, a future phase. But I think the next phase that we're moving into is, like, we get to focus on the stuff that we actually enjoy doing in the work that we do, while AI does all the sort of mundane, boring stuff we just don't want to do because it's repetitive or whatever.
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