HumanExodus: Why I'm Building Measurement Infrastructure for the Largest Labour Transition in History

In 2021, a young man showed me the DALL-E pilot. His parents are close friends. He'd just taken an internship at OpenAI. After the demo, I told him straight: based on what I just saw, CS students won't have anywhere to work. Their jobs will be done by this. He didn't answer right away. Smiled a little and said: "Well, machines still need someone to operate them." Fair point. Machines do need people. What he didn't convince me of was that we'd need anywhere near as many. That c