Kirby: Focusing on newly discovered niche domains insulates workers from automation
Julia Kirby · a16z Podcast | Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income) · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:41
Julia Kirby, author and Harvard Business Review editor, explains career strategies for human augmentation alongside AI on the a16z Podcast.
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“For instance, in scientific inquiry, you know, you're always looking for the thing that hasn't yet been discovered, and you're kind of going into narrower and narrower and narrower niches, and that is a very viable strategy for human work, because only after that new territory has been discovered will it eventually move into the realm of automation.”
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