Trask: AI Displacing Legitimate Jobs Is a Far Slower Takeoff Than RSI Doom
iamtrask · x · 2026-11-10
AI researcher iamtrask contrasts two AI takeoff narratives in a reply thread: the classic RSI fear of "algorithm makes better algorithm... everyone gets hacked, it's all over in a day," versus the vision from TomDavidsonX and bradrcarson that AI gets good enough to displace legitimate jobs. He argues the latter is a far slower takeoff and calls their vision considerably more optimistic than standard RSI fears.
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