If AI Can Hack Companies, Why Isn't It Replacing White Collar Jobs?
ErmingSoHard · reddit · 2026-08-12
The author raises a question about the current boundaries of AI capabilities: why do headlines often depict frontier AI models as having massive hacking capabilities and rogue tendencies, akin to a nascent "Skynet," while in reality, there is virtually no noticeable news of white-collar jobs being replaced by AI at any significant scale?
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