Whether there or more or less jobs, they will certainly change, and professions will compete to gain jurisdiction over valuable ones, in large part through regulation, requiring credentials, and appealing to the public. Expect action on how AI can be used in law, medicine etc.
@emollick
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Job Boundaries Contested Without Job Losses
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You don't need less jobs to have a contestation over job boundaries
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Sociology Perspectives on AI Job Transformation Debate
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Two lessons:
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Professional Boundaries Shift as AI Disrupts Jobs
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A thing I see missing from AI job debates is that as jobs are disrupted by AI, professions will compete over new boundaries Abbot's System of Professions is a good read on what happens historically. Here is a short cartoon summary by a lizard painted in the style of Egon Schiele
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Image Illustrates Future Trends and Curve Progression
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This is a useful image for thinking about the curve we are on and what likely comes next in an intuitively understandable way.
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Policy’s Impact on AI Implementation and Future Paths
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Groups and movements that can build & get implemented clear policies will have an outsized impact on the chances that AI is used in the way that they want. This is especially true in the near term It seems clear that “ban AI” or “no policy at all” are not going to the only paths
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Government’s Essential Role in Shaping AI Development and Response
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Your personal feelings about the competency of government does not change the fact that government is the only entity (and the only one that can claim to represent the will of the people) that can actively shape the response to ever more powerful AI systems, for better or worse.
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AI’s Impact on Work and Life Requires Government Policy
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If you believe that AI is going to have a big impact on work and life, the only real tool for mitigating bad impacts and channeling usage for good will be government policy And that policy will be complicated: AI will impact employment & healthcare & education & etc. differently
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AI Paper Review: Addressing Hallucinations and Privacy Concerns in Models
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There is also too much focus on two issues in discussions of paper reviewing: hallucinations & privacy. Hallucinations are not gone, but the latest models rarely hallucinate sources (& it is relatively easy to make the human responsible) And you can get IP compliance easily now
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Academic Society Prohibits AI Reviews Despite Evidence for Mandatory Use
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The most prominent academic society in my field (the Academy of Management) prohibits AI use in reviews, when the evidence suggests it should be mandatory to run AI reviews (with human discretion, of course). https://
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oads/2026/04/Kohler-Zollikofer-Einsiedler-Hoyle-Ash-Read-Paper-Write-Code-Agentic-Reproduction-Social-Science-Results.pdf
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