What Does Human Work Look Like After Automation?

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When intelligence is abundant and much of today’s execution can be automated, how will humans spend their time at work? What skills will matter? What kinds of companies will we build? Where will we find meaning, status, and purpose?

These are the most important questions of our time, and the places we usually turn for answers don’t have them yet.

But there’s a small group of people who do: The humans who are living with frontier models day in and day out, and applying them to their work and lives.

That has been our method at Every since the GPT-3 days, when it was not yet clear that LLMs were anything more than stochastic parrots. Over the years, we’ve argued that AI would let one person do work that once required a team, that knowledge workers would become managers of models, and that automation would paradoxically create more work for human experts.