16 Jun 2026
In a feed full of AI doomerism, here's my positive take: AI is going to create jobs:
Take medicine.
AI is already or about to out-diagnose most doctors, given the right data & context. It's infinitely patient, never tired, and can hold a long, careful conversation about symptoms before landing on the most likely diagnosis.
Most people read that as: doctors get replaced.
I keep thinking something else: we end up with more doctors, not fewer.
Here's the logic 👇
Today the barrier to becoming a doctor is the sheer depth of knowledge you have to memorise. Years of it. That bottleneck is a big reason we have a shortage of overworked doctors.
Move that knowledge into the AI (fed by the world's best specialists, whose research keeps improving it), and the barrier drops.
The profile of a "doctor" shifts: less about holding all the knowledge, more about the human side - listening, empathy, bedside manner, working alongside the AI.
= shorter, cheaper training. A lower barrier to entry. Potentially 2-3x more people, and drawn in to HELP people.. not for the intellectual pursuit.
Lower average salary, yes. But far more of them, far more accessible, and on average more human than the system we have today.
Sharper diagnostics from the machine, more humanity from the humans.
And I don't think medicine is special here. Every industry gets its turn: the work doesn't vanish, the profile of who does it changes.
That's my positive read - AI creating jobs and better care at scale, not the doomer version where it just replaces everyone.
I might be wrong though. So please dispute it - where does this break? 🤔