Musk says call center jobs will 'disappear fast' as the sector shrinks 4% a year
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-10
Citing a16z data, call center jobs grew 4% annually for 15 years but are now shrinking 4% a year. Elon Musk replied bluntly that they "will disappear fast due to SI" (superintelligence), a stark take on AI displacing service-sector employment.
Related event: Call Center Jobs Turn From Growth to Decline as Musk Says They'll Vanish(3 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Decomposed fertility data shows mothers still average 2.1+ kids; the crisis is childlessness — Pascallisch · 2026-10-10
- Should AI safety outsource comms and translation to outsiders? — DavidSKrueger · 2026-10-10
- Google Fellow Milanfar argues AI still needs engineers in keynote speech — docmilanfar · 2026-10-10
- Bengio boosts AI slowdown call: Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic R&D, RSI red line 'has become the plan' — Yoshua_Bengio · 2026-10-10
- AI data labeling gold rush: Mercor founders, 22, become youngest self-made billionaires as data goes stale at 70% accuracy — FinanceYF5 · 2026-10-10
- "Made by humans" could become the new "Made in America" badge — petesena · 2026-10-10