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NYT Opinion: AI Agents Are Coming for Jobs

Summary

Today's NYT opinion piece specifically frames autonomous AI agents — not AI broadly — as the displacement mechanism; the 'agents' angle is more concrete than generic AI-and-jobs coverage and lands the same day as Anthropic's 'most agentic Sonnet yet' launch, making the juxtaposition editorially useful.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com: usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big par… →
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social: I know it’s not a popular position but I really don’t see mass unemployment from generative AI soon because of structural and technical feat… →
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social: Zeynep Tufekci: "But generative A.I. as it currently exists cannot easily replace human beings, because it cannot manifest human intelligenc… →
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social: “GenAI as it currently exists cannot easily replace human beings, because it cannot manifest human intelligence. That won’t stop it, however… →

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