Comment by Al-Khwarizmi

my skills are at such a high level that it’s almost theoretical that it’ll ever be good enough to replace me for 90% of what I get paid to do.

Is it really true for most people that they are using their core advanced skills 90% of the time? I'm curious about how people feel about this.

I'm a professor, which is supposed to be an intellectually demanding job. I do research in NLP/AI, and I don't think AI will replace my core intellectual tasks in the near future, but I don't think my core intellectual tasks represent even 10% of my time. Most of the time is taken by various things like writing bureaucratic reports, writing and polishing grant applications, grading exams and exercises, designing a poster, planning a course's calendar for a given year, creating a figure for slides, writing assignments and exams, attending teaching coordination meetings... which definitely are or should be automatable. Probably even teaching the same lesson for the umpteenth time also is from an objective point of view, we'll probably be kept doing it due to the human factors driving motivation but not because a lecture given by a human is intellectually superior.