Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Neuroscientist and founder, Ness Labs
Answers will become abundant and questions will become the hard part
When answers get this cheap, the value moves to knowing which questions are worth asking.
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After automation
As AI automates more of today’s tasks, there will be more ambitious, expert human work to do than ever. Here, builders, operators, and thinkers offer their predictions for what work after automation could look like.
After automation
As AI automates more of today’s tasks, there will be more ambitious, expert human work to do than ever. Here, builders, operators, and thinkers offer their predictions for what work after automation could look like.
100 predictions on what happens to work
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Chris Pedregal
Cofounder and CEO, Granola
Some of your hardest problems will solve themselves
Dan Shipper
Founder and CEO, Every
There will be more human work than ever
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Neuroscientist and founder, Ness Labs
Answers will become abundant and questions will become the hard part
Yash Tekriwal
Educator and go-to-market engineer, Clay
Computational thinking will come for your job
Sari Azout
Founder and CEO, Sublime
Your attention will be handed back to you. Don't waste it
Karri Saarinen
Cofounder and CEO, Linear
AI's biggest problem will be design
Tina He
Writer and investor, Pace Capital
Boring infrastructure will win
Joe Hudson
Founder, The Art of Accomplishment
Wisdom work will replace knowledge work
Nir Zicherman
Cofounder and CEO, Oboe
The jobs AI can't do will scale
Alex Komoroske
CEO and cofounder, Common Tools
Software will work for you, not on you
Emily Vernon
Cofounder, Abstract Group
AI will spur a resistance to mediocre ideas
Sumeet Singh
Founder, Worldbuild
Founders who AI-ify existing workflows will lose
Tom Critchlow
Writer and strategist, Alephic
The company with the best clock will beat the company with the best model
Phin Barnes
Cofounder, The General Partnership
'Good enough' will beat artificial general intelligence
Dan Pupius
Chief technology officer, The General Partnership
You'll need to know which bets on AI are reversible
Paul Millerd
Author, The Pathless Path and Good Work
The people declaring 'Work is solved' will still be working
Jonny Miller
Host, Inner Frontier
Regulating our nervous systems will become part of work
Our competitive advantage will come from playing golf and being the funniest person in the room
Simone Stolzoff
Journalist and author
Your job title will stop meaning anything
Noah Brier
Cofounder, Alephic
Software companies will outperform software factories
Bethany Crystal
Founder, Build First
Weirdness will be the best human advantage
Willem Van Lancker
Partner, Terrain
Seeking productive friction will lead to your biggest successes
Shoshana Berger
Writer and brand communications advisor
Aged intelligence will be worth more than artificial intelligence
Eliot Peper
Head of story, Tolan
AI will be a whole new storytelling medium
Jim Prosser
Founder, Tamalpais Strategies
The jobs AI won't touch will be the ones where excellence is visible, and matters
Matt Van Horn
CEO and cofounder, June
The minimum viable product will be for one person—or even one agent
Craig Mod
Writer and photographer
Offline devices will be like going to the gym for your brain
Alice Albrecht
AI researcher and founder
To work with AI, we'll grow new senses
Sam Gerstenzang
Partner, Boulton and Watt
The best businesses will use AI to revolutionize their companies, not automate them
Kit Krugman
Chief people officer, Altana
The best leaders will focus on the messy work of unpredictable humans
Gagan Biyani
Cofounder and CEO, Maven
The AI revolution will take so much longer than anyone is predicting
Yohei Nakajima
Cofounder and general partner, Untapped Capital
Your AI tools will feel like part of your body
Christine Choi
Partner and head of brand communications, M13
Our work will be discovering the destination, not optimizing the route
Emmett Shine
Cofounder and designer, Little Plains
You will be paid for what you can feel but can't explain
Hilary Gridley
Product leader and writer, Writerbuilder
Art school will be the best training for technical work
Sam Pasupalak
Cofounder and CEO, Skyfall AI
Progress will be measured by the depth of human wisdom
Ben Tossell
Founder, Ben's Bites
AI will introduce a lower floor and a higher ceiling for excellence
Victor Riparbelli
Cofounder and CEO, Synthesia
The more human AI feels, the more real human time will be worth
Micah Rich
Head of AI education, Every
AI will become a mise en place for the mind
Mike Taylor
Head of evals, Every
Every good idea will have 1,000 clones by morning
Tim Fu
Founder, Studio Tim Fu
When AI can argue for anything, trust your gut
Matt Cynamon
Media, Union Square Ventures
We'll move from a knowledge economy to a discovery economy
Natalie Fratto
Founder, Charts & Crafts
We'll pay to watch humans make things
Sahil Lavingia
Founder, Gumroad
Institutions won't need a crisis to change
Certainty will be the trap
ÌníOlúwa Abíódún
Lead product designer, AirOps
'Powered by AI' will mean cheap
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