Ofir Press: AI's story is making humans 100x more capable, not taking away labor
OfirPress · x · 2026-11-11
Princeton postdoc and SWE-bench co-author Ofir Press says he's incredibly bullish on AI — we haven't seen even 1% of its positive impact yet — but argues the story isn't about taking labor from humans; it's about making humans 100x more capable and productive. In a follow-up he frames language modeling as a tool, not magic: far more capable than AI ten years ago, yet comparable to past transformations like mechanical calculators to PCs, or phone lines to the internet.
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