AI Labs Should Stop Marketing Vacations and Focus Agents on Cost of Living
paw_lean · x · 2026-10-09
Jim Prosser argues AI labs won't get personal assistants to scale by marketing vacations, reservations, and party planning — they should target Americans' core problem: cost of living, with a thread of concrete ideas. Reposter simpsoka, speaking on a panel, adds that the industry needs to think harder about how AI solves real problems for people outside the bubble, while noting SF's own cost of living is a massive issue.
Related event: OpenAI Policy Aide: AI Assistants Should Tackle Cost of Living(2 posts)→
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