Comment by Victor Menaldo

The doomsday case rests on a flawed arithmetic: If AI can do 40 percent of a job’s tasks, then 40 percent of the work must go. But a job is not a to-do list of separable chores. Firms employ people for bundles of work held together by judgment, coordination, client trust and accountability. When a job’s tasks complement one another, automating the pieces does not reduce the job’s scope. It raises the value of the human work that remains.