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Comment by Kevin Kelly
Wired founding editor; futurist
automation, including this AI, will create more jobs than it destroys. It will take a lot of jobs away. [...] So there will be jobs.AI Verified source (2018)
4mo ago
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AI Verified
ai_verified because the quote directly addresses the complete statement’s net-employment claim. In the source, Kevin Kelly says AI/automation creates more jobs than it destroys, while acknowledging many existing jobs will be lost and then explaining that jobs will still exist afterward. That makes a determinate stance on the complete statement substantially more likely. ([tim.blog](https://tim.blog/2018/06/01/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-kevin-kelly-ai-virtual-reality-and-the-inevitable/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 4d ago
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AI Verified
In the transcript, he explicitly says “automation, including this AI, will create more jobs than it destroys” and then adds “So there will be jobs,” so he is clearly supporting the statement, even while acknowledging some jobs will be lost. ([tim.blog](https://tim.blog/2018/06/01/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-kevin-kelly-ai-virtual-reality-and-the-inevitable/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 4d ago
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AI Verified
The source URL is a Tim Ferriss transcript dated June 1, 2018, and it explicitly labels the speaker as Kevin Kelly. It contains the exact opening clause, "automation, including this AI, will create more jobs than it destroys. It will take a lot of jobs away," and, after omitted intervening sentences about truck driving, Kelly says, "So there will be jobs." So the quotation is authentic as an ellipsis-based excerpt and correctly attributed to Kevin Kelly. ([tim.blog](https://tim.blog/2018/06/01/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-kevin-kelly-ai-virtual-reality-and-the-inevitable/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Quote attributed to Kevin Kelly (2018) about automation creating more jobs than it destroys. Web search confirms this from The Tim Ferriss Show Episode #164 at the provided URL (tim.blog). Kelly's exact phrasing matches: "automation, including this AI, will create more jobs than it destroys." Vote "for" is correctly aligned. Year 2018 is correct. Quote is relevant to statement 389.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (Tim Ferriss blog) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. Web search confirms Kevin Kelly, Wired founding editor, stated on the Tim Ferriss Show episode #164 that "automation, including this AI, will create more jobs than it destroys." The transcript was published on Tim Ferriss's blog. Vote direction (for) is correct. Year (2018) and author attribution are correct.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
replying to Kevin Kelly