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Comment by Carl Benedikt Frey
Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute; Director of the Future of Work Program at the Oxford Martin School; author of The Technology Trap and How Progress Ends
For the last-invention story to hold, people would have to become unnecessary even as partners or supervisors to AIs. [...] We would need a world where practical know-how is fully transferable through digital channels and where responsibility can be automated along with cognition. That is not the world we live in. [...] Humans are not becoming redundant; they are becoming the world's most decisive bottlenecks.
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(2026)
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Quote (2026) confirmed accurate. The project-syndicate.org source returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but web search confirms Frey's commentary 'Will AGI Really Be the Last Invention?' (Project Syndicate, March 19, 2026) contains the quote, including 'Humans are not becoming redundant; they are becoming the world's most decisive bottlenecks,' and the argument that for the 'last-invention story' to hold, people would have to become unnecessary — which Frey rejects, noting AGI breakthroughs stall on clinical trials, manufacturing scale, and regulatory approval. Author attribution (Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford Internet Institute / Oxford Martin School) is correct. His skepticism that 'solving intelligence' solves everything else aligns with the 'against' vote on 'AGI will create abundance' — he argues human bottlenecks prevent AGI from automatically delivering transformative/abundant outcomes. Author, content, year, source contents, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 10d ago
replying to Carl Benedikt Frey