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Google's James Manyika is betting that doomers are wrong about AI and jobs

Platformer·Casey Newton·3 days ago
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Some fun news: we're doing our first-ever Platformer live event on June 2 at Atlassian headquarters in San Francisco, and you can join us! We'll be announcing our guests shortly, but suffice to say it's gonna be a fun time. Only a few dozen tickets are available, so if you're interested I suggest buying one soon. Get all the details here . This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . Last week, I sat down with Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, who made what I thought was a pretty strong case that jobs are just harder to automate away than AI companies keep telling us. Aaron's argument went something like: the last mile of human work — judgment, context, the messy parts — doesn't actually get automated anytime soon, and companies are about to have many more humans and agents working together, which means we can keep our jobs. I left that conversation pretty optimistic.…

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