Pedro Domingos: AI killing grunt work means internships can just be much shorter
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-04
Pedro Domingos, author of The Master Algorithm, weighs in on AI and entry-level work: internships are 99% grunt work and 1% learning, so AI doing away with the former doesn't eliminate them — it just means they can be much shorter, with time concentrated on the learning part. A counterpoint to fears that AI is destroying career entry points: what gets replaced is the long drudgery rung, not the learning opportunity.
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