Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)

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Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.
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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.
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AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers: A reverse-centaur in the loop.
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AI can't do your job: But an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job.
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AI's productivity theater: AI CAN'T do your job, but an AI salesman CAN convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI.
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"Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed: The particular torments of reverse-centaurs are drastically under-theorized.
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Worker misclassification is a competition issue: Corrupt employers created a market for lemons.
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The real AI automation threat to workers: The robot can't replace you, but it CAN replace your shitty boss.
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