"Leaders like JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon argue that EQ and critical thinking are the only skills that will survive the automation wave. Microsoft Satya Nadella would agree, calling emotional intelligence a required workplace skill. These statements are meant to give workers reassurance that AI won't completely replace people, highlighting an irreplaceable human trait that the technology supposedly cannot acquire."
"Mercor, a San Francisco-based AI firm, is hiring people from a vast list of professional career backgrounds to improve its AI, training the model to adopt core skills in a more human-like manner. In other words, they are building a business to prove executives like Jamie Dimon and Satya Nadella wrong-and to hasten the replacement of people with AI in the workforce, closing the last mile of human employment."
"The company's CEO Brendan Foody and co-founders Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha were recently minted the youngest self-made billionaires after the company was valued at $10 billion last November. That funding has given the 22-year-olds the resources needed to build out their ambitious AI venture. Mercor's mission is to bridge the gap between machine learning and human nuance. "Everyone's been focused on what models can do," Foody told Fortune in November. "But the real opportunity is teaching them what only humans know-judgment, nuance, and taste.""
Executives have framed emotional intelligence and critical thinking as uniquely human skills that will survive automation, while AI experts warn widespread entry-level white-collar losses are possible. A San Francisco startup named Mercor is intentionally training models on diverse professional backgrounds to teach judgment, nuance, and taste, aiming to replicate human-like core skills and accelerate workforce replacement. The founders are young entrepreneurs who reached billionaire status after a $10 billion valuation and are deploying funding to scale the venture. The company positions its mission as bridging machine learning and human nuance, challenging assumptions about irreplaceable human judgment.
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