Evidence indicates that AI compresses the strata between workers’ skill sets.
That means that AI is helping the bottom-level and middle-level skilled workers quite a lot to be better at what they do. But AI doesn’t help the top level very much.
That tells us a few things:
- The 1% are still better than AI.
- The 99% can (and should) use AI to get towards or into the 1%.
AI raises the floor. It’s increasing equity in knowledge work. It can help you be better at what you do.
However, as Syndrome might say, “If everyone is in the 1%, then no one is.”
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