Automating companies with AI leaves ~25% of employees doing oversight; 5x more companies will be created, keeping employment flat

Automating companies with AI leaves ~25% of employees doing oversight; 5x more companies will be created, keeping employment flat | you'll take a typical company, automate everything with AI, you'll end up with about 25% of the same number of people doing oversight, managing dashboards and handling ex doing exception handling... But you end up creating five times more companies because you can and therefore the employment stays exactly the way it has.

you'll take a typical company, automate everything with AI, you'll end up with about 25% of the same number of people doing oversight, managing dashboards and handling ex doing exception handling... But you end up creating five times more companies because you can and therefore the employment stays exactly the way it has.

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