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These Are the Jobs People Actually WANT AI to Automate
13 Oct 2025
Today on The AI Daily Brief, Nathaniel Whittemore explores new research revealing which jobs people actually want AI to automate—and which they find morally off-limits. Drawing on studies from Stanford and Harvard, he maps where AI capability meets human preference, showing how workers and the public diverge on what tasks should be handed to machines. The episode goes beyond fear or hype to outline a nuanced “automation morality map” that helps explain where society is ready for AI, where it isn’t, and what that means for the future of work. Plus, in the headlines: Google’s token usage hits 1.3 quadrillion per month, Meta makes another billion-dollar AI hire, XAI moves into world models, and China escalates its chip war.Brought to you by:Is your enterprise ready for the future of agentic AI?Visit AGNTCY.orgVisit Outshift Internet of AgentsGoogle Gemini - Try NotebookLM today https://notebooklm.google.com/KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcastsBlitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwThe Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614Interested in sponsoring the show? [email protected]
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, these are the roles that people actually want AI to automate. Before then in the headlines, Google is now processing 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick notes before we dive in.
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We kick off today with an update from Google, where that company is now pumping out 1.3 quadrillion tokens a month to serve their AI products. You might remember back earlier this year, when between May and July, we saw this massive inflection point where Google went from processing 480 trillion tokens in May all the way up to 980 trillion towards the end of July.
That was monthly tokens, by the way. So about 104% growth in just a couple of months. My speculation was this was due in part to the expansion of actual deployment use cases, particularly around AI coding, that was just consuming a huge amount of additional tokens. But whatever was driving it, it's clear that usage of AI is going up, up, up.
Now, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis recognized that at this scale, the numbers are frankly getting a little bit difficult to comprehend. A quadrillion has 15 zeros in it. And to reframe that 1.3 quadrillion number, he says that's 500 million tokens a second or 1.8 trillion tokens an hour. Now, this is not the only indication that Gemini is undergoing some serious growth right now.
The latest edition of SimilarWeb's traffic report showed that Gemini was by far and away the big leader for AI platform growth in September. The Gemini web app saw a 46% jump in traffic, which was more than triple the increase for Perplexity, which was in second place with a little over a 14% jump. That report, by the way, also noted that DeepSeq notched its first month of growth since February.
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