A quote from Arvind Narayanan
June 23, 2025
Can you break up your own job into a set of well-defined tasks such that if each of them is automated, your job as a whole can be automated? I suspect most people will say no. But when we think about other people’s jobs that we don’t understand as well as our own, the task model seems plausible because we don’t appreciate all the nuances.
Source: A quote from Arvind Narayanan
Simnon Willison quotes Arvind Narayanan citing a recent New York Times article on the impact of AI on Radiology. Long predicted to significantly impact the professional prospects of radiographers, it seems thats not been the case.
My instinct having worked with these technologies extensively for some years now both for software engineering and product development aligns with this observation.
