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Humans will always have jobs keeping AI agents on track.
Drawn from what Noah Smith said
AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.
A korrentour readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Noah Smith said
AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
So I predict that humans will always have jobs keeping AI agents on track.
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↗AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobsnoahpinion.blog
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Cannot both be true
Smith predicts humans will always have jobs keeping AI agents on track. Amodei’s argument is that AI matches the general cognitive profile of humans, so it reaches the new jobs too -- and supervising an agent is itself cognitive work of exactly the kind he says is not protected. The word "always" is what makes these incompatible rather than merely differently timed.
Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.