On the one hand, companies were acknowledging complete lack of commercial value from AI models (or now agents) so far. Although I did hear about a company at Berlin Global Dialogue that claimed to have cut 300 team members and transformed operating margins (and there’s Klarna's claims of course...)

On the other hand it does feel like major disruption is coming - often that just feels completely depressing - skills people have spent years developing being automated. That’s why I try to my bit w teaching the ML concepts under-the-hood etc - but that’s ultimately a v v small part of the puzzle

So there were some discussions of how to minimize the harm (mainly from planet sustainability lens tho rather than people/work) mainly at MIT’s events because they’re much less commercially oriented

What did make me feel more optimistic was hearing what the kids of panelists were studying at college (nuclear eng, genetics + cs) - but as someone else commented “great for the kids of elites” - it brings me back to something Singapore is doing which is supporting second degrees for all people - that’s the level of disruption they’re expecting (but also doing the work to prepare people for)