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What Gets Measured, AI Will Automate

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AI doesn’t need a sci-fi upgrade to upend the economy—current models, and the cheaper, more capable versions already in the pipeline, are set to disrupt nearly every corner of the labor market. Their surprising performance across text, image, and video threatens to upend how work is done across the creative ranks of writers, designers, photographers, architects, animators, and brand advertisers, as well as the spreadsheet crowd of financial analysts, consultants, accountants, and tax preparers. Not even the credentialed bastions of law, medicine, or academia are safe: AI can sift through oceans of content and serve up bespoke advice or coursework at a fraction of today’s cost—and with quality that’s closing in fast. There are major questions about how much more powerful AI tools might become—and how soon. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman claim artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be only a year or two away. Meta’s Yann LeCun is more skeptical, arguing that curren

AI and machine learning What Gets Measured, AI Will Automate by Christian Catalini , Jane Wu and Kevin Zhang June 19, 2025 Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images Post Post Share Save Get PDF Buy Copies Print Summary . In the age of AI, what gets measured gets automated. As models grow more powerful, any task that can be turned into data—from spreadsheet analysis to therapy sessions—is increasingly ... more Leer en español Ler em português Post Post Share Save Get PDF Buy Copies Print AI doesn’t need a sci-fi upgrade to upend the economy—current models, and the cheaper, more capable versions already in the

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