What stays scarce in the AI era? Human attention becomes the strongest signal
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-15
Economist Anna Stansbury offers a lens on AI's impact on work: think about what remains scarce. She highlights @vriparbelli's point that once AI avatars can attend many meetings for us, choosing to give a colleague your actual human attention becomes a much stronger signal. In an all-hands preview, he argues workplace AI experiences will start to mirror human ones, making shared time with teams and customers more meaningful, with more coming October 1st via Every's Thesis Statement series.
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