What Tech Leaders Get Wrong About AI Replacing Jobs in the Near Term
From The Tech Leader's Playbook by Avetis Antaplyan
March 25, 2026 · 60 min · Season 1 · Episode 124
About this episode
Avetis Antaplyan discusses the future of AI and its implications for jobs with AI pioneer Dr. Craig Kaplan.
For more thoughts, clips, and updates, follow Avetis Antaplyan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avetisantaplyan In this episode of The Tech Leader's Playbook, Avetis Antaplyan sits down with Dr. Craig Kaplan, an AI pioneer, founder of iQ Company, and a four-decade veteran in artificial intelligence and collective intelligence systems, for a wide-ranging conversation on where AI is actually headed and why most people are still underestimating what is coming. Dr. Kaplan traces the history of AI from its roots in symbolic reasoning and machine learning to today’s agentic systems, explaining why the shift from AI as a tool to AI as a worker is such a major turning point. He shares lessons from building PredictWallStreet, a collective intelligence platform that used signals from millions of retail investors to power a top-ranked hedge fund, and uses that story to argue that communities of agents may become more powerful than any single model. The discussion also dives into jobs, entrepreneurship, AI-driven productivity, superintelligence, and the growing risk of building powerful black-box systems without enough transparency or alignment. Perhaps most compellingly…
People in this episode
Host: Avetis Antaplyan
Guest: Dr. Craig Kaplan
Topics covered
- AI and jobs
- AI safety
- collective intelligence
- entrepreneurship
- AI-driven productivity
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- job replacement
- superintelligence
- machine learning
- black-box systems
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: iQ Company, PredictWallStreet
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