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Emma Burleigh

Uber cofounder says human workers will be extremely ‘valuable’ until super AGI steps into the picture: ‘That's my white pill’

Travis Kalanick, cofounder and former chief executive officer of Uber (Credit: Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images)

Business leaders are split on if AI will trigger a jobs armageddon or usher in “super interesting” gigs of the future. And Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick believes the veil is finally lifting on the reality of tech-driven workplace disruption: there’s “another side” to the story, where human employees are more powerful than ever before.

“Until we get super [artificial general intelligence], humans are valuable,” Kalanick said recently on the TBPN podcast. “And they are going to become more and more valuable, because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress.”

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