Gurley warns bringing manufacturing jobs back may be futile as automation eliminates those positions.
“Like, if you wanna bring the jobs back there by the time you get the jobs back, there may not be any jobs. Like like, at one Because of automation.”
Gurley reports lawyers he spoke with have already drastically reduced paralegal staff due to AI.
“Paralegals are already under threat, and I have talked to lawyers that have drastically reduced the size of their paralegal force. I've talked to them. That has already happened.”
Gurley notes more bank tellers exist today than forty years ago despite ATMs.
“There's still people working in banks today despite the fact that the ATM There've been studies that say there's more bank tellers today than there were like forty years ago.”
Gurley notes radiologists have increased in number despite AI automation speeding up reading scans.
“I think there was someone at TED talking about the fact that the number of radiologists has gone up, not down, despite the fact that you can read these things so much faster.”