Two OpenAI employees publish the essay The Future of the Firm
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Two OpenAI employees published The Future of the Firm, an essay that divides the org chart of a company mixing people and AI into three shapes — a promotion, in which AI sits beneath everyone and everyone becomes a manager; beside us, in which AI comes in as a colleague under a human manager; and between us, in which AI coordinates work between executives and staff — and wrote that all three will happen in part. It deals with the economics of the transition rather than full automation, and argues that the more capable AI is, the easier it is to adopt. It is the second piece in a series on the next-generation economy, and the authors stated that it does not represent the views of OpenAI or of their colleagues.
Why it matters
If the workplace usage data and the enterprise software partnership OpenAI put out the same week are the story on the side of numbers and products, this piece is the story on the side of what that will look like inside an organization. The part worth noting is automation without layoffs — a picture in which you hand your former job to AI and move up a rung in the hierarchy, and in which, as the authors themselves admit, the price is the disappearance of the path where a new hire learned by doing the grunt work. The authors work at OpenAI and stated that this is not the company's view, so it should be read as a personal argument.
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