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With fear of more layoffs looming in tech, will AI make even more jobs redundant?

The Bridge to China

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Are There Other Visions of Eliminating Human Work?

Alex, I wanted to ask you what other visions of eliminating human work are possible in your imagination. The first one is that how you pronounce stenographers, stenographers, the shorthand typist at all of these conferences. They could just replace them with tape recorders. There's still there are people who just like the texture of that old piece of tool. And so we could literally do away with most of the teaching profession, just by having a combination of existing technologies.

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