Are We Running Out of Valuable Problems to Solve?
From Exploring Prosperity- Challenging Pessimism in the US by Bob Dewey
May 21, 2026 · 7 min
About this episode
The episode explores the implications of AI on human productivity and the emergence of new opportunities in the face of technological advancement.
Artificial intelligence is triggering widespread fear about the future of work, white-collar employment, and the long-term value of highly educated workers. After Citadel founder Ken Griffin described feeling “depressed” after seeing the latest advances in AI, many people interpreted it as another warning about technological disruption and economic displacement.But what if we are asking the wrong question?If AI allows researchers, engineers, analysts, and entrepreneurs to solve problems in days that previously took months, does that necessarily make human beings less economically valuable?Or does it simply lower the cost of solving problems?Historically, when technology lowers the cost of communication, transportation, manufacturing, or computation, humanity does not run out of things worth improving. Instead, entirely new industries, opportunities, and categories of work emerge that were previously uneconomic or impossible to pursue.The internet dramatically lowered communication costs and unleashed hundreds of thousands of new online businesses. AI may now be doing something similar for human productivity itself.In this video, I explore:- why humans naturally focus on…
People in this episode
Host: Bob Dewey
Topics covered
- artificial intelligence
- future of work
- economic opportunity
- technological disruption
- human productivity
- problem-solving
Keywords
- AI
- economic displacement
- productivity
- technology
- industries
- opportunities
- communication costs
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Organizations: Citadel
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