Important and unusual essay which presents the idea that the work which is prone to be automated must first be the work which can be first accurately defined and then measured. The breakdown of jobs into tasks (Skills Based Hiring…) lubricates the AI inevitable future, as each task then becomes ‘more automatable’ now that we have crystallised it away from the job in which it was once embedded. Politics will inevitably come into consideration here - might we see resistance to quantification, as a defence against disintermediation risk from AI? Lots to think about here in this essential post -
have a read.