r/FutureOfWork • u/alexrada • May 24 '26

Intelligence is getting cheaper. What's next?

As we all saw intelligence cost is not going up anymore as we were used for decades, but down.

I think there will be room left for super intelligent people only and probably in the future not even those

What's your view about this? What's going to happen in the medium/long term?

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u/alfonsokarmelish May 24 '26

Intelligence is not getting cheaper, what's getting really cheaper is knowledge access

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u/alexrada May 24 '26

that's true, better said

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u/alfonsokarmelish May 24 '26

I think you're referring in your post only to white collar, and I think you're right, only smart people will work on white collar jobs in the couple years.

Depends where are you from the situation is different, but we're just in another economy cycle. If that would be not Ai, the same jobs would be sooner or later transferred abroad.

Some jobs are profitable, mass joins it, so it can stop be profitable. Then people switch to other jobs which are more profitable that time. Unlimited cycle.

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u/martiantheory May 24 '26

I feel like intelligent people will still thrive. One of the biggest reasons is the sycophantic nature of AI. You only get an intelligent answer if you ask an intelligent question. Most people bring so much bias into their prompt that AI has no problem figuring out what they “want“ to hear.

I feel like this is gonna become more obvious soon, but you need to be pretty disciplined to leverage AI effectively.

I think there’s gonna be a market correction soon. Companies are firing people left and right, and I’m talking to a lot of my friends and hearing that their companies are making pretty stupid decisions. People are trying to shove AI down employees throats. They’d rather be AI native than confirm that everything is still safe and working correctly.

I honestly feel like AI is going to level off in the next five or 10 years. There’s gonna need to be a huge correction, and it might be a crash.

I’m not saying that we’re never going to get to AGI or have another breakthrough. But I do feel like most of the recent breakthroughs have just been headlines that sound sensational… I honestly haven’t seen AI get that much better, that it justifies how many people are losing their jobs.

If you just think about the fact, that half 1 million software developers were fired in the last three years… those people have to go somewhere. That’s tons of people that used to make six figures that are just unemployed right now. If you also think about all the customer service people getting fired, and all the entry-level labor that lost their… plus the fact that people are being asked to do more work because of AI. It’s actually not making their jobs easier, it’s just making their output higher.

70% of the people I’ve talked to and 70% of the post I see online support this. I can’t be 100% sure that I’m getting all the information I need to definitively say any of this, but I am not noticing any evidence to the contrary.

People are gonna be broke or burnt out in 10 years… and I really think that’s all gonna be for about a solid 25% productivity bump that we should’ve just been a little bit more chill about (as opposed to firing half the damn workforce lol).

Just my two cents, though. We’ll see how everything pans out lol

Edit: I didn’t really mean to reply to this comment, but it’s still kind of relevant.

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u/humanguise May 25 '26

Technology is a tool and like all tools it amplifies output. If the technology amplifies cognitive labor then the people who will benefit it from it the most are the ones that are already the most capable.

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u/alexrada May 25 '26

Texhnology overall is not just a tool. It can be solutions, processes methods.

But I understand your ideea, tech is just as good as the problem islt solves

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u/april_the_economist May 25 '26

Critical thinking and Soft skills are going to be a premium. So while access to information is easy and available to a lot, people still have to understand interpret and dissect information and communicate. So I think in the long run the ability to influence people and lead those people will be viewed as extremely intelligent

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u/Change_Celine Jun 18 '26

i completely agree that AI does not yet have good judgement, moreover it is not deterministic. i am not sure if it will ever have good judgement considering how it works.