AI and Jobs: Why Work Won't Disappear
Sam Altman is convinced that AI will take most jobs. Parkinson's law suggests otherwise: work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Organizations survive because their employees always find a way to stay needed, and AI will not change that.
AI-processed from Habr AI; edited by Hamidun News
People often say AI will take jobs away from humans. But that overlooks Parkinson's law: work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Why does Parkinson's law protect jobs from AI?
According to a 1957 observation by the historian Cyril Parkinson, work expands to fill the time allotted to it. Technology may make a process ten times more efficient, but the organization does not shrink. It simply invents new work for the same people.
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