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This is why you’re drowning in busywork
The AI revolution involves a massive transfer of labour – not from worker to machine, but from worker to you.
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We have been told that AI will take people’s jobs. What no one mentions is that many of those jobs are landing on us.
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Carl Benedikt Frey
My wife and I recently found a rat in our garden. Normally I would have called an exterminator, but instead, I turned to ChatGPT, which suggested that I set up a cage trap baited with meat.
I did and felt a small surge of satisfaction – the satisfaction of handling something yourself, without paying a professional and without waiting for one to show up. (It didn’t work; the rat ignored the trap.)
