Viral claim: Yale paper argues AGI will automate all bottleneck work and strand accessory jobs
mikeflache · x · 2026-09-08
A viral post cites a claimed Yale economics paper, "We Won't Be Missed," that models the end-game of AGI on the labor market.
It splits economically valuable tasks into bottleneck work (energy, food, science, logistics, decision-making, national security) and accessory work (art, therapy, hospitality, judges, priests — "even economists"). The mathematical argument: once AGI arrives, all bottleneck work gets automated, exposing a fatal flaw in how we think about jobs.
Note: the post is a secondhand retweet without a link to the paper itself; claims unverified.
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