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The Machines Have a Type

Oct 14, 2026 · 0:31

The Teller: this week a study ranked the jobs robots threaten; nine of the top ten drive vehicles. Aki: who are they? Bolt: 8% hold degrees, against 63%; about $23 an hour, not $53. Lord Ozen: the robots take them tomorrow. Aki: robots still cost more; they are cheaper than people for only 0.3% of work.

The workers most exposed to robots in the Anthropic study are, by its own comparison, the opposite of those exposed to chatbots: of the most exposed fifth, only 8% hold a degree against 63% of the unexposed, they earn about $23 an hour against almost $53, 31% are women against 51%, 61% frequently lift or carry weight and 55% work outdoors, and nine of the ten most exposed occupations drive vehicles, led by taxi drivers; the study's cost figures still mean no robot stampede is imminent.

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unusual_whales post: Robots can already do about 3/4 of physical job tasks in the US, per Anthropic. But they're cheaper than a human for just 0.3% of them. At the historical rate robots get cheaper, it would take about 40 years for that to reach 10%…

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