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The interviewer suggests that when automation covers 99% of a job, the remaining human 1% may become highly valuable if it bottlenecks the overall process.
Dwarkesh Patel · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“And we could be in a similar situation where if you automate 99% of a job, that last 1% of the human has to do is incredibly valuable because it's bottlenecking everything out.”Play from 1:11:30Report a misattribution
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