Knowledge Workers

“I think you should use the models as much as possible for writing as reporting, and in as much as you think with writing, as I really do, and I think a lot of people do, you should not use it. You know, you shouldn't replace your thinking with it.”

“And by the way, I think the job loss narrative is another one of those simplistic extrapolations. What is the job loss narrative is. Now AI can do knowledge work. Therefore, knowledge workers are all going to lose their jobs. It completely ignores the fact tha…”

“All of us will have to build our AI doubles at some point just to continue scaling ourselves. But your AI double, if it's just trained on world wide web, it's just going to be an average intelligence of everybody.”

“I think every knowledge worker will have one of these in three, four or five years, but mine was more on the go to market side where I think every website will change and there'll be a, an all knowing avatar on that homepage.”

“As you may recall on the prediction show for this year, my most contrarian belief is that AI would increase demand for knowledge workers, not put them out of business.”

“I do think that we're going to move into a world where we, you know, sort of start a lot of things as we go to bed and we wake up in the morning and it's done.”

“I think that's one of the big things you're going to see in 20, 26 is again, this productivity boom for knowledge workers.”

“I think one thing that we're going to see in 2026 that no one's talking about is 24 seven inference that everyone is going to have inference running all the time, not just on input into chat GPT, but consistently for the majority of people, especially in knowl…”

“AI will increase demand for knowledge workers, not decrease it.”

“And also you're perversely incentivized because you leveraging AI in your work as you operating faster, but your incentive, just like a lawyer or just like any hour pay based knowledge worker is to rack up as many hours as possible.”

“I think people end up feeling more like managers of AI than just users of AI.”

“And that market is a massive market because the spend On knowledge workers globally is 30 trillion, and AI will do 10 to 20% of the work of what humans do to offload them. That's a three to six trillion dollar opportunity over the next five to seven years”

“Open Evidence is not a healthcare company. I wanted to build a consumer in a company, but I wanted to do something that no one had ever done before, which is treat knowledge workers like consumers.”

“While medicine is obviously very specific, the human psychology is not. And everything that was true and that we've seen through the sort of hyper pace consumer internet growth curve adoption by the most traditionally skeptical knowledge workers shows that in …”

“And one thing that's going to fundamentally happen is that each one of us is going to have this amazing team Of, you know, call it assistants, coworkers, coaches that are truly personal to you. And, you know, you're always surrounded by that team. And this tea…”

“Half of these knowledge workers are going to be gone in 24 months”

“And so I think you will see that in the next couple of years, really really start taking off and good products. Have recently become possible with like the latest models that can reason and make better decisions. The models are likely going to get better and b…”

“I think for a lot of jobs post the industrial revolution, where we became knowledge workers instead, we just flipped how we measure work. And so now, Instead of measuring output, we didn't take the time to figure out how to measure output for knowledge workers…”

“As a knowledge worker even though I'm interacting through devices to communicate with people, it's generally me in solitude having the most impact, you know?”

“If we're a reaction machine, we're not doing meaningful work. No project days. And we're not really alive as humans. We're just chatbots. And so it's worth experimenting if you don't want to live your life out as a chatbot.”

“If you're not producing something yourself, and most of the time that, okay, a question is being asked to you, and you have to go and look up for that information, search for that information, or you read about that information. That's what you are going on an…”

“Knowledge workers apparently spend 2.5 hours a day, which is around 30% of their time in a workday searching for information.”

“And so, so GPT-IV might end up disrupting, not like knowledge workers necessarily, but it might just disrupt like mechanical Turk and is just a, an annotator on steroids.”

“If you're not using this, if you hear my voice right now and you're a white collar worker, a knowledge worker, and you're not using this year and getting up to speed on it, I think you'll be out of a job within the next two.”

“And then when you need to be right, you spend all of your time and effort, not only, you know, probably unconsciously undermining other people but trying to prove that you're right to other people and you're closed to new data. You're closed to different persp…”

“I think that the need for charisma is actually going to increase, not decrease, and here's why. The people who are going to create whatever it is that's coming down the pike are going to be knowledge workers, and they're going to have to be really smart. If yo…”

“It's hard in a knowledge environment, though, right? Because You have so much of your worth. You want to contribute to something. I think there's a biological need to contribute to something larger than us. And if your identity, you're not mechanically making …”

“I think where we're going to head with this is already seen in sports is that an athlete has a coach who sits with them and looks at the tape. Shane Parrish: Right. Sendhil Mullainathan: The tape is the objective. Shane Parrish: And I'm going to help you inter…”

“According to the University of California, the average person reads a 100,000 words per day today. It's called Instagram comments, Twitter feeds, blog rolls, news headlines, texts, alerts, and notifications, and the average knowledge worker receives a 147 emai…”

“While there are over six hundred million knowledge workers around the world, 40% of the things that they're doing are super repetitive and mundane by nature.”

“The average number of SaaS applications that every knowledge worker uses is 36, and on a given day, an average knowledge worker uses at least 10 applications.”

“I think that means that the core attribute is not how much you know, but how much you're willing to learn and how much you're willing to question what you know. If what we want is, is stuff that's known, Google will do that for you, right? Like you don't, we d…”

“Prediction one is that this year and in the coming few years will be the era of the human-assisted AI. Take the most valuable knowledge workers, the high wage employees across your customer base, and figure out how to help them. Figure out how to take you know…”

“There are a billion knowledge workers in this world, and by the way, that is expanding.”

“By 2030, there'll be five billion middle class human beings, of which at least half of them will be knowledge workers.”