The Automation Paradox: Why More AI Makes Human Judgment More Valuable
The automation paradox is quietly reshaping what we pay for. Every time AI gets better at a specific task - writing code, analyzing documents, generating designs - the monetary value of doing that task falls. Commodity work becomes commodified. And yet, the people who thrive are not those who do the task fastest; they’re the ones who decide whether it should be done at all. The Direction Problem In 1997, Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess. The immediate prediction was obvious: computers will replace chess players. ...