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Does OpenAI’s Deep Research Put Me Out of a Job?

An investigation into a Sam Altman tweet

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Arushi Khosla 6 months ago

Excellent piece, she wrote about an analysis of her own demise.
The closing sentence hit the mark -- most of my smartest friends all got started in what I now think of as a research factory. Sitting in the data and wading through it all manually WAS laborious but critical. Yeah, that's a comfort for the longevity of the careers of those of us in it, but kind of depressing for any new grads. Don't have particularly valuable advice for them atm.

Brad Z. 5 months ago

maybe I'm a naive optimist but AI’s impact on knowledge work always seems stuck in an old paradigm—one where AI is just a force for wage compression/worker displacement...that’s a scarcity mindset. to me, what’s actually happening is the rise of human-automatronic jobs (*in silico vibes), roles that weren’t even conceivable until now. i wish we were less into who gets replaced and more into what gets created. Idk. the human-AI interface isn’t a zero-sum fight over tasks, rather than(maybe) a new economic terrain where human capital is digitized, expanded, and integrated into some crazy-ass cybernetic workflows. LFG! Also, let me say it: work isn’t disappearing; it’s evolving into something post-scarcity, where intelligence is abundant. Perhaps it isn't even about protecting wages more than it’s about unlocking whole new strata of economic agency through synthetic labor markets.. human-aligned automation, etc. For transparency, how come we're not minting jobs instead of always 'losing' them. Thanks for letting me riff. Please write more about this topic. Accelerate.