Humanoid robots built around cutting-edge AI brains promise shocking, disruptive change to labor markets and the wider global economy – and near-unlimited investor returns to whoever gets them right at scale. Big money is now flowing into the sector.

The jarring emergence of ChatGPT has made it clear: AIs are advancing at a wild and accelerating pace, and they’re beginning to transform industries based around desk jobs that typically marshall human intelligence. They’ll begin taking over portions of many white-collar jobs in the coming years, leading initially to huge increases in productivity, and eventually, many believe, to huge increases in unemployment.

If you’re coming out of school right now and looking to be useful, blue collar work involving actual physical labor might be a better bet than anything that’d put you behind a desk.

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