Future Of Work: 41% Of AI Startups Build Automation Workers Don’t Want – RamaOnHealthcare

41% Of AI Tools Target Tasks Workers Don’t Want Automated

A new Stanford University study shows a striking misalignment between what AI startups are building and what workers actually need. After analyzing 1,500 employees across more than 100 job types, researchers found that nearly 41% of automation tools created by Y Combinator-backed startups fall into categories workers rank as low priority or even off-limits for automation. This growing disconnect underscores a costly issue: while tech founders an…

Future Of Work: 41% Of AI Startups Build Automation Workers Don’t Want – RamaOnHealthcare

A recent study from Stanford University has sounded a wake-up call for AI entrepreneurs. By surveying 1,500 workers across 104 occupations, researchers found that “41.0% of Y Combinator company-task mappings are in the ‘Low Priority’ and ‘Automation Red Light’ zones”, meaning almost half of the automation tools being built target tasks that employees don’t actually [...]