Human-level AI may arrive without automating most jobs, argues viral thread
gleech · x · 2026-11-07
asher5772 makes an underrated point in the timelines discourse: we could deploy human-level AI without automating most jobs. Economic diffusion arguments are mostly fake, but the first AGIs might not be well-elicited on real-world tasks — so job automation can't serve as an AGI indicator, and 'why haven't we seen automation yet' arguments may fail.
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