New job categories will emerge: target designers, data rights brokers, targeting system shapers.

New job categories will emerge: target designers, data rights brokers, targeting system shapers. | So in this chapter we lay out lots of new job opportunities, career opportunities that that will be available to humans, at least unaded humans. So target designers for example or data rights brokers people who are involved in shaping the targeting systems and shaping how we aim fire and verify super intelligence towards the hardest problems that humanity faces. This is going to be a growth industry from a job perspective.

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So in this chapter we lay out lots of new job opportunities, career opportunities that that will be available to humans, at least unaded humans. So target designers for example or data rights brokers people who are involved in shaping the targeting systems and shaping how we aim fire and verify super intelligence towards the hardest problems that humanity faces. This is going to be a growth industry from a job perspective.

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