I think the more productive approach is to augment humans to solve more difficult tasks faster. (The AlphaFold models didn't find these protein structures alone - they were operated by a human). Aka create a centaur. I also wrote about the task vs job-level automation topic and the economics of job displacement here: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/why-job-displacement-predictions
I think the more productive approach is to augment humans to solve more difficult tasks faster. (The AlphaFold models didn't find these protein structures alone - they were operated by a human). Aka create a centaur. I also wrote about the task vs job-level automation topic and the economics of job displacement here: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/why-job-displacement-predictions