Fast Company/2h ago
The smartest people in the world are automating themselves into obsolescence—and loving it
The smartest people in the world are automating themselves into obsolescence—and loving it. It was about 1:30 on a September morning when Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou received a LinkedIn message. He was up late playing video games, an indulgence that he allows himself as he works toward a PhD in game theory while juggling a job at the Big Four accounting firm EY and a teaching post at the London School of Economics. Hitting pause on the game, Chatzilazarou opened LinkedIn and read the message. It was from a recruiter working for Mercor, an AI training company founded three years ago and.