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:

  1. The 1% are still better than AI. 
  2. 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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