✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-30

Exploring the stark divide between mundane task completion and AI's looming threat to employment.

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🤖 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was a tale of two white collar worker realities… the banal and the existential threat of AI to gainful employment. However, I suspect the truth may not be somewhere in the middle… but is instead playing in another small town nearby in an empty lot just waiting to be discovered.

Techmeme: Tools like Microsoft Copilot are helping execs, managers, and staff quickly catch up on work after a vacation by triaging emails and summarizing Slack threads (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)

By Jo Constantz / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI may wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike US unemployment to 10%-20% in the next one to five years (Axios)

From Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.