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. ...