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Measure AI By Tasks Not Jobs Replaced
The right framework for AI's economic impact is not what percentage of current jobs AI will replace, but what percentage of tasks across different time horizons (five-second, five-minute, five-hour, five-day tasks) AI can do, because AI is a tool that lets people operate at higher levels of abstraction; at some point this shifts from a quantitative efficiency change to a qualitative change in the kinds of problems people can hold in their head.
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Sam AltmanEvidence Quote
“So if you think of all of the five-second tasks in the economy, five minute tasks, the five-hour tasks, maybe even the five-day tasks, how many of those can AI do? I think that’s a way more interesting, impactful, important question than how many jobs AI can do”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:04 AM
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