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Betting On Humans - by Anton Leicht and Dean W. Ball

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What to do about AI & jobs

Betting on Humans What to do about AI & jobs Anton Leicht and Dean W. Ball Jun 04, 2026 9 Share Today’s piece is co-authored with Dean W. Ball . For most of history, human labor has been performed with human muscle. We cut, hauled, sewed, dug, chopped, threshed, pushed, and pulled. For the simplest things we could use animals, but for any physical work that required higher intelligence, the human body was a necessity. Labor, while intrinsically physical, therefore did require intellect, and often quite a bit of cognitive skill. But outside the clergy, ‘knowledge work’ would have been an anachr

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