This is the advantage of you, the human worker.
Asymptotic industrialism seeks efficiency and productivity, which requires precision and tirelessness. It likes machines because machines deliver on this promise.
But the machines don’t do well with ambiguity. Even the smart ones all have expectations. They require definitions. They require some physical foundation of bedrock from which to start.
Which is why and how you matter.
You, a human, excel in the ambiguity. You excel at being the adult in a room full of mechanistic children.
I’ve been greasing the industrial machinery for the last ten years through the use of automation and AI. Given our capabilities, it makes me wonder why anybody would sign up for, let alone lobby the government for, an assembly line job. You can’t win at speed. You can’t win at precision. You can’t win at tirelessness. Why would you want to?
But you can win with your humanity.
Worried about your job? Start embracing ambiguity.
