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After automation

As AI automates more of today’s tasks, there will be more ambitious, expert human work to do than ever. Here, builders, operators, and thinkers offer their predictions for what work after automation could look like.

After automation

As AI automates more of today’s tasks, there will be more ambitious, expert human work to do than ever. Here, builders, operators, and thinkers offer their predictions for what work after automation could look like.

100 predictions on what happens to work

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Neuroscientist and founder, Ness Labs

Answers will become abundant and questions will become the hard part

When answers get this cheap, the value moves to knowing which questions are worth asking.

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Chris Pedregal

Cofounder and CEO, Granola

Some of your hardest problems will solve themselves

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Dan Shipper

Founder and CEO, Every

There will be more human work than ever

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Neuroscientist and founder, Ness Labs

Answers will become abundant and questions will become the hard part

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Yash Tekriwal

Educator and go-to-market engineer, Clay

Computational thinking will come for your job

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Sari Azout

Founder and CEO, Sublime

Your attention will be handed back to you. Don't waste it

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Karri Saarinen

Cofounder and CEO, Linear

AI's biggest problem will be design

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Tina He

Writer and investor, Pace Capital

Boring infrastructure will win

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Joe Hudson

Founder, The Art of Accomplishment

Wisdom work will replace knowledge work

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Nir Zicherman

Cofounder and CEO, Oboe

The jobs AI can't do will scale

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Alex Komoroske

CEO and cofounder, Common Tools

Software will work for you, not on you

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Emily Vernon

Cofounder, Abstract Group

AI will spur a resistance to mediocre ideas

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Sumeet Singh

Founder, Worldbuild

Founders who AI-ify existing workflows will lose

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Tom Critchlow

Writer and strategist, Alephic

The company with the best clock will beat the company with the best model

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Phin Barnes

Cofounder, TheGP

'Good enough' will beat artificial general intelligence

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Dan Pupius

Chief technology officer, The General Partnership

You'll need to know which bets on AI are reversible

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Paul Millerd

Author, The Pathless Path and Good Work

The people declaring 'Work is solved' will still be working

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Jonny Miller

Host, Inner Frontier

Regulating our nervous systems will become part of work

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Khe Hy

Founder, LaTour AI

Our competitive advantage will come from playing golf and being the funniest person in the room

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Simone Stolzoff

Journalist and author

Your job title will stop meaning anything

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Noah Brier

Cofounder, Alephic

Software companies will outperform software factories

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Bethany Crystal

Founder, Build First

Weirdness will be the best human advantage

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Willem Van Lancker

Partner, Terrain

Seeking productive friction will lead to your biggest successes

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Shoshana Berger

Writer and brand communications advisor

Aged intelligence will be worth more than artificial intelligence

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Eliot Peper

Head of story, Tolan

AI will be a whole new storytelling medium

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Jim Prosser

Founder, Tamalpais Strategies

The jobs AI won't touch will be the ones where excellence is visible, and matters

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Matt Van Horn

CEO and cofounder, June

The minimum viable product will be for one person—or even one agent

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Craig Mod

Writer and photographer

Offline devices will be like going to the gym for your brain

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Alice Albrecht

AI researcher and founder

To work with AI, we'll grow new senses

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Sam Gerstenzang

Partner, Boulton and Watt

The best businesses will use AI to revolutionize their companies, not automate them

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Kit Krugman

Chief people officer, Altana

The best leaders will focus on the messy work of unpredictable humans

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Gagan Biyani

Cofounder and CEO, Maven

The AI revolution will take so much longer than anyone is predicting

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Yohei Nakajima

Cofounder and general partner, Untapped Capital

Your AI tools will feel like part of your body

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On November 5, 2026, 400 people will gather at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn to debate the ideas in this collection—live, unscripted, and face to face.

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