2025

Altman: whole classes of jobs will go away

June 2025

In the essay "The Gentle Singularity", Sam Altman writes that there will be "very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away". He predicts systems capable of novel discoveries in 2026 and robots doing tasks in the real world in 2027.

Source: Sam Altman, The Gentle Singularity

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