AI Won't Take Your Job — It Will Change What You Do

What will be left for us to work on

In this ICML 2026 invited talk, Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan argues that AI will not automate most jobs but will augment human work, shifting effort toward less verifiable tasks like evaluation and monitoring. He predicts a migration from problem-solving to question-asking in research, and a growing importance of relational, domain, and judgment skills in industry.