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The solution is near. The "elite" will be a lot less smug when their jobs also get replaced by technology. No need for melodramatic navel-gazing.

Anyone notice that some the most "elite" schools are total no-shows in AI research?



Unfortunately, this is the wrong conclusion -- the jobs of the elite are precisely those that don't get replaced by technology. Automation only affects those jobs are systematic and repeatable.

The elite typically hold jobs in consulting, finance, management, government, etc. that require a lot of word-smithing and people skills.

The big blind spot for technologists is thinking that technology is central to everything. It is not. If you look at how society is organized, it's the folks with the people skills who are on top. People who are good with technology work for them.


Would you care to place a bet on which jobs will be replaced by technology?

Banks haves acres of class A office space filled with people preparing powerpoints to show each other. Those jobs will go away.

And those are the people who hire management consultants.




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