AI and the Coming White-Collar Crunch

Here&rsquo;s a thing that has been bothering me lately. Frontier AI models are now performing at the 90th percentile or higher on a bunch of tasks that form the backbone of what white-collar workers do: reading comprehension, coding, legal research, medical diagnosis, quantitative reasoning, analytical writing. And they do it dirt cheap compared to hiring a human. Here&rsquo;s the uncomfortable…