Humans will always have jobs keeping AI agents on track.

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• Cannot both be true

  AI will eliminate many millions of jobs within the next few years, and that disruption will shape the politics of everything else about AI.

  Smith predicts humans will always have jobs keeping AI agents on track. Brundage says AI will eliminate many millions of jobs within the next few years and that the disruption will shape the politics. The word always is what makes these incompatible rather than differently timed.

• Cannot both be true

  Because AI matches the general cognitive profile of humans, it will also be good at the new jobs that would ordinarily replace the ones it automates.

  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.

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• A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong. NFNicole Forsgren22 Mar 2026AI agents
• A subscription price increase is not justified by adding a minor AI feature. SZStefan Zweifel7 Jul 2026AI agents
• A whistleblowing channel for AI agents changes nothing unless someone or something in the environment acts on the reports. RKRohit Krishnan31 Aug 2026AI agents
• Agentic organisations will be forkable in a way that classical companies never were. AKAndrej Karpathy11 Mar 2026AI agents

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