
As debates over AI-driven job displacement intensify, Silicon Valley investor and economic commentator Balaji Srinivasan and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks say the real story is that humans remain essential, guiding and verifying AI at both ends of the workflow.
What Happened: In a series of posts on X in June, Srinivasan challenged the popular notion that AI can work autonomously from start to finish. "AI doesn't do it end-to-end. It does it middle-to-middle," he wrote. "The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying."