A korrentour reading

AI will eliminate whole classes of jobs, but the wealth it creates will make policy responses affordable that were previously unthinkable.

Drawn from what Sam Altman said

AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

What is a korrent?

A korrent — “current”, with a K — is our reading of what someone said: one sentence, drawn from their own words below. People put the same thought in different words; a korrent tries to name the thought they share, so that what several people mean can be set side by side, and followed as it changes.

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What Sam Altman actually said

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Sam Altman 10 Jun 2025

There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before.

↗The Gentle Singularityblog.samaltman.com

First recorded here 10 Jun 2025 · How quotes work

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Where this collides

In tension with

Enduring job displacement is undesirable and dangerous, and should be minimised rather than accepted as a goal.

Altman treats elimination as acceptable provided the wealth it creates funds the response. Amodei treats minimising displacement as the goal rather than something to be compensated for afterwards. Both could hold, but they send policy in opposite directions.

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