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by qntty 804 days ago
> Because of AI’s capacity to weave information and rules with acquired experience to support decision-making, it can be applied to enable a larger set of workers possessing complementary knowledge to perform some of the higher-stakes decision-making tasks that are currently arrogated to elite experts, e.g., medical care to doctors, document production to lawyers, software coding to computer engineers, and undergraduate education to professors.

Note that in this analysis, if you are a software engineer, you are not the "middle class" as most signs point to. Rather you are a member of an elite that the middle class must wrest power from.

The identity of the middle class is another question. You might assume that it's made of the people you know, but more likely it's underpaid workers from developing countries.