What Will Be Left for Us to Work on? The Future of AI and Human Labor

What will be left for us to work on?

I recently addressed the anxiety surrounding AI at ICML 2026, arguing that we should view AI as a normal technology that amplifies human potential rather than replacing us entirely. While recursive self-improvement is a possibility, I believe the future requires radical adaptation toward human-AI co-superintelligence. Instead of fearing obsolescence, we must now build complementary skills like judgment and taste to thrive in a transformed economy.

"If you choose the first path, and it turns out that AI actually ends up being an amplifying technology as opposed to a replacing technology, then I would argue that over the next few years you've perhaps lost the best time in history to build these skills that will give us superpowers."