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AI integration requires organizational reconfiguration

Anton Leicht says integration with proprietary data and workflows, and organizational reconfiguration, are bottlenecks to using existing AI capabilities. He expects disruption in team composition and productivity, while expressing uncertainty about short-term displacement because AI can also create additional demand and work.

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Anton Leicht on AI deployment, economic disruption and risk

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I think it's integrating with proprietary data, integrating with proprietary workflows. Obviously not the entire task profile of humans is currently covered by models, but on specific tasks they're better than humans, and you can drop them into specific task profiles — at least in software engineering, and also in some other general white-collar activities. I think the question is just that the labor market takes its time to rearrange around that
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A more terrestrial concern. We talked a bit about bottlenecks — I don't mean the human inertia around why adoption hasn't happened as much as it obviously could, in theory, have happened so far. But if you take the flip side of that and just look at the AIs and their capabilities, clearly there's something missing relative to the experience of hiring a human to do work, right? It feels thinner and thinner all the time — almost to the point where I'm now having a hard time putting my finger on what it is about Fable 5.1 or Astra that's actually worse than hiring a human. Do you have an answer for what that is, and what additional marginal capability gain you'd expect to actually create labor market disruption? What do you think would happen in a hypothetical world where Tesla decides to license its full self-driving, and within 18 months or so — let's say we make a priority of it, so we're into a bit of a fictional scenario here — but all of a sudden basically all the cars drive themselves, and the four or so million Americans who make their living driving aren't needed to drive anymore. That seems like a pretty clear displacement story that very well could happen. Do you think the economy can absorb those people? Where do they go? It seems really tough when you get down to it — okay, this guy's driven a truck for 25 years, he's not ready to retire, but the truck now drives itself. What happens to him?

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