Is AI coming for your job? Yes, your job, and has influencer culture reached the point of diminishing returns. We'll discuss all this and more on today's episode of the editors. I'm Noah Rothman. Rich is out today, but in his absence, I'm joined by Phil Klein and Michael Brendan Doherty. You're, of course, listening to a National Review podcast. Our sponsors for today's episode are Made In and There. More on them a little later on.

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So guys, we're going to go, we're going to start with a debate that is roiling social media,

is beginning to bleed out into the real world. It began with a mega viral essay that was

published on X this week, and seemingly everyone in media found it immensely profound. It's called Something

Big is Happening, and the essay's author, AI, an entrepreneur and investor, Matt Schumer,

joined a growing chorus in it when he predicted immense economic disruption as a result of

artificial intelligence's rapid progress. He anticipated that millions of Americans will not just soon be out of work,

but will be all but unemployable in their chosen fields in the next 10 years.

Maybe not even that, maybe five years, or in the immediate future.

The pace of progress he expects will accelerate.

AI will start building itself out at speeds that are basically

incomprehensible. And he anticipates that, quote, almost all knowledge work will be outsourced invariably

to robots. Legal work, software engineering, financial analysis, medical analysis, customer-facing

jobs like consumer services. And worst of all for us, writing and content,

it's all going to the machines.

But how can you avoid this fate?

Well, you can do so by surrendering to the warm embrace of our algorithmic alverlords,

using AI seriously, not just for parlor tricks, and for the low, low price of $20 a month,

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