Turing winner Patterson: superintelligence won't leave room for new human jobs
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-10-04
David Patterson (Google distinguished engineer, Turing Award laureate) argues on X that the classic "AI will create new jobs we can't imagine" logic breaks down with superintelligence.
His reasoning: if SI can replace every current job, it already possesses the full range of human skills and can do anything humans can do—so there is no residual space of "new jobs no one has thought of yet." The claim directly challenges historical precedent that technology eliminates old work while creating new kinds of work, implying a far more thorough labor impact.
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