Digital workers earning over $3k/month number just 50-150M, argues MIT's Papail — a small market

DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-30

In a discussion on the market size for AI "digital workers," Dimitris Papail estimates only about 50-150 million digital workers currently make more than $3,000 a month. That, he argues, is not a lot — implying a still-small market cap given how many frontier labs are chasing it.

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