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Google's James Manyika is betting that doomers are wrong about AI and jobs

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This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here .

Last week, I sat down with Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, who made what I thought was a pretty strong case that jobs are just harder to automate away than AI companies keep telling us. Aaron's argument went something like: the last mile of human work — judgment, context, the messy parts — doesn't actually get automated anytime soon, and companies are about to have many more humans and agents working together, which means we can keep our jobs.…

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