Messy Jobs: The Work That AI Cannot Reach
Imagine you wake up to a message from your AI agent: “Good news. I changed your internet provider and cut your bill by 10 percent. I also found, booked, and paid for a summer house that fits your needs.” Now think about what happens next.
- ▪Imagine you wake up to a message from your AI agent: “Good news.
- ▪I changed your internet provider and cut your bill by 10 percent.
- ▪I also found, booked, and paid for a summer house that fits your needs.” Now think about what happens next.
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Imagine you wake up to a message from your AI agent: “Good news. I changed your internet provider and cut your bill by 10 percent. I also found, booked, and paid for a summer house that fits your needs.” Now think about what happens next. You may live with a partner who has already changed the plans you agreed on last night, or with flatmates who didn’t do the dishes, or with children who have decided this morning that they are not going to their swimming lessons anymore. In all cases you are the manager of a tiny, fast-moving organization — deciding how to allocate scarce resources, figuring out the division of labor, and negotiating agreements. The bottleneck is not information. It is the politics of the household: making sure decisions are acceptable to everyone and implemented.
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