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AI Displacing Knowledge Workers First — Multiple Voices Converge

Sabine Hossenfelder explains why mathematicians and coders face AI automation before truck drivers; others frame AI as an 'infinite work machine' arms race, while Anthropic's imminent S-1 is said to be 'breaking investors' brains.'

What we know

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains the key asymmetry: physical jobs require hardware evolution and regulation before automation can arrive, while pure intelligence jobs are just a software update an account on X. She RTs that OpenAI's early 2023 job market impact paper listed mathematicians as #1 — a prediction now playing out in real time another account on X. Meanwhile, another account on X frames the broader consequence as an 'AI Infinite Work Machine' — a world where everyone deploys agents to fight each other's agents, 'running constantly to end up in the same place' another account on X, capped by his darkly comic raccoon metaphor for AI dependency another account on X. On the investment side, Gavin Baker's prediction that the Anthropic S-1 will 'break a lot of investors' brains' is cited as having proven mostly true another account on X, while Corning's CEO sees Anthropic's success as a direct tailwind for his business another account on X. Cryptanalysis: no significant result from a frontier AI lab since late July, per Matthew Green another account on X.

By the Global Eye 24 desk, with AI assistance. Updated as the story develops. Spot an error? Write to corrections@globaleye24.com.