Will Robots Replace All Human Jobs by 2060? The Real Bottleneck Isn’t AI (ft. David Shapiro) 🤖✨

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The Bottleneck to Post-Labor: Robot Production Scale 🤖

David Shapiro’s tweet outlines a projected timeline for the transition to a post-labor economy driven by humanoid robots. The author argues that while advanced artificial intelligence will arrive relatively soon, the widespread replacement of human labor is constrained by the time and resources needed to manufacture a sufficient number of robots, particularly due to limitations in rare earth metals and scaling production.

Despite potential advancements in actuator technology, full labor substitution is estimated to take 30 to 50 years. The prediction is that it will be 2040 to 2060 for wide spread global labor substitution by robots – depends on how we hit those production numbers. The analysis forecasts a near-term collapse of knowledge work, followed by increasing robot integration, ultimately leading to global labor substitution. However, the author identifies several categories of jobs, such as skilled trades, high-accountability roles, and “meaning” professions, that are likely to persist longer.

David Shapiro’s original tweet:
https://x.com/DaveShapi/status/1916188978727784847

Automation’s Grip: Reshaping Labor, Wealth, and Society by David Shapiro

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