AI agents become drop-in remote workers

6.8 significance by Leopold Aschenbrenner Jobs December 2027

Why does it matter?

Drop-in remote workers would move AI from tool use into direct substitution for many online jobs.

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If that is not enough, by 2027/28, we will have models trained on the $100B+ cluster; full-fledged AI agents/drop-in remote workers will start to widely automate software engineering and other cognitive jobs. Each year, the acceleration will feel dizzying.

Leopold Aschenbrenner