Silicon Valley builds crazy AI agents to increase human labor. If these agents work as provided, a whole series of jobs could disappear – or close to it. AI agents are ready to shift customer service representatives, sales partners, executive assistants, IT managers, lower developers and journalists. Ai Startup Boardy even replaces “useful VC” by automating people.
When the founders or investors were asked about the possible shift of the work that their technology will cause, the answer is always the same: yes, AI will eliminate some jobs. But it will create others.
Ensuring that VC Mike Ghaffary has become obsessed. Ghaffary is known for his time as a general associate of Canvas Ventures and previously at Social Capital. Its investments include superhuman, strava, faire, optimizly and cloudkitchens.
On Friday, Ghaffary exclusively announced TechCrunch that he left the canvas to join Burst Capital, a VC company founded in 2017 by a former Execs Yelp team. Burst is run by former Yelp Coo Geoff Donaker. (Ghaffary and Donaker also worked on Yelp years ago.)
In Burst, Ghaffary is trying to support companies that not only create jobs but create good middle class jobs for millions of people who have no advanced degrees in AI and mechanical learning.
“As we see this job, we really do something about it,” says TechCrunch. “I feel there are a lot ‘don’t worry. Don’t look here. The AI will destroy many jobs, but will also create jobs! “As Technological Companies. We need to create these new jobs we promise.”
It sees some companies doing so by offering technologies to small business owners, such as owner.com, which helps restaurant owners with marketing. or Glossgenius, which makes all-in-one booking and payment software for hairdressers.
Among his own portfolio is RESQ, which helps restaurants and hosting businesses manage their equipment repair needs, including their matching repair traders.
But Ghaffary says that the biggest gap he sees is the newly formed businesses using AI to create high -payment jobs. “I will tell you a company I am looking for, also that I have not found: Vocational Training.”
He wants to see the founders manufacture newly established businesses that use AI to help people learn high-paying transactions such as industrial electricians or commercial plumbers or to raise their skills in other such industries.
“Ai could come there,” he says. He would like to see an affordable plan that will provide virtual or otherwise AI-strengthened training, “almost like a flight simulation”, but for “millions of people” at risk of being left behind.
“I think there is a great opportunity,” he says. “And it is for the sake of our country and our world. Otherwise we have this great underemployed society and it is not good for anyone.”
