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Automating only a small fraction of a job would not automate the entire job and would have limited economic impact.
Unidentified speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025
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“job but it's probably if you look at the fraction of their time on the job that they spend on doing that is a very small fraction of what they should do it's just this popular conception people have or travel agents like they just book hotels and flights but that's not actually most of their job so automating that actually wouldn't automate their job and it wouldn't have that much of an impact on the economy so i think this is actually an important thing that important worldview difference that separates us from people”Play from 8:11Report a misattribution
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