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Superhuman AI would bring the permanent problem front and center

Brink Lindsey · 18 Feb 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Large parts of white-collar knowledge work, starting with coding, are likely to become automatable in the near future.

    Their wordsit’s becoming increasingly plausible that great swathes of contemporary white-collar knowledge work — starting with coding — are going to be automatable, at least as a technical matter, in the relatively near future.

  2. Our reading

    Superhuman AI would mean a massive increase in wealth that promises both liberation and marginalization.

    Their wordsWhen we’re pondering the prospect that superhuman AI may be just around the corner, what we’re talking about is a massive increase in societal wealth — wealth that holds out both the promise of liberation and empowerment and the threat of marginalization and dehumanization.

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