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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/caseynewton/statuses/116603829370371691">Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 12:26:36 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton" title="caseynewton@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/61006-48-20240126011805.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Casey Newton" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Casey Newton</a></section><article><p>Almost a decade ago, James Manyika bet that tasks would be easy to automate — but jobs wouldn't. Now at Google, he says he's willing to bet against Microsoft, Anthropic, and any other company whose execs say a bloodbath is coming for white-collar work <a href="https://www.platformer.news/james-manyika-google-ai-jobs-io-2026/" rel="nofollow">https://www.platformer.news/james-manyika-google-ai-jobs-io-2026/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6412228#notice-12623965">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-05-20T12:26:36+09:00" title="Wednesday, 20-May-2026 12:26:36 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/116603829370371691" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/116603829370371691">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/6096651">Manyika: I'll just say: let's take the bet. Some of those predictions were made two years ago — that in two years, 50% of jobs would be wiped out. Well, two years is up. Let's take a look. And anybody who makes that prediction for two years from now, I'm willing to take the bet.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/603/829/305/607/377/original/1e10783a1377505d.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/603/829/305/607/377/original/1e10783a1377505d.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: storage.ghost.io</div><h5><a href="https://www.platformer.news/james-manyika-google-ai-jobs-io-2026/">Google's James Manyika is betting that doomers are wrong about AI and jobs</a></h5><div> from <span>@CaseyNewton</span></div></header><div>Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now?</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 12:26:36 JST Casey Newton
Almost a decade ago, James Manyika bet that tasks would be easy to automate — but jobs wouldn't. Now at Google, he says he's willing to bet against Microsoft, Anthropic, and any other company whose execs say a bloodbath is coming for white-collar work https://www.platformer.news/james-manyika-google-ai-jobs-io-2026/
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1. Manyika: I'll just say: let's take the bet. Some of those predictions were made two years ago — that in two years, 50% of jobs would be wiped out. Well, two years is up. Let's take a look. And anybody who makes that prediction for two years from now, I'm willing to take the bet.
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