David Shapiro

1 week ago | daveshap.substack.com | David Shapiro

Some new and upcoming AI job titles that will exist soon (or already do):1. AI ghostwriter. Many copywriters have shot themselves in the foot by refusing to use AI tools. However, the expectation now is that any copywriter (or ghostwriter) will use AI to help accelerate their work.

1 week ago | daveshap.substack.com | David Shapiro

The landscape of research has fundamentally changed. What once took years of painstaking library work, endless citations, and manual synthesis can now be accomplished in weeks or months with the right combination of AI tools. After countless requests from my audience to share my research methodology, I'm finally pulling back the curtain on the complete AI research stack that enabled me to build a comprehensive post-labor economics knowledge base containing over 50 purpose-built research reports.

1 week ago | daveshap.substack.com | David Shapiro

I’ve been hard at work compiling all my research on Post-Labor Economics. The good news is that, the more I look into this, the more I realize that the adults are talking, there are solutions, and we’re gonna be fine. Will we still have some rough patches ahead of us? Absolutely, but that’s life. My point is that the “AI and Robot Job Apocalypse” is coming, but it will not be as catastrophic as people fear.

1 week ago | staradvertiser.com | David Shapiro

A house in my neighborhood was torn down awhile back. I was surprised by how the home that stood strong and housed many families for nearly 70 years fell so easily. A big backhoe, a couple of dump trucks, a few hours and, poof, rubble. Building a new house has been far trickier, as contractors spend months negotiating problems. It made me think of how the Trump administration’s wrecking crew is demolishing federal institutions.

2 weeks ago | daveshap.substack.com | David Shapiro

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:17:17Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. I used NotebookLM to generate a >1 hour long podcast describing my entire corpus of PLE. Interestingly, this method (loading up dozens of research papers and generating a long podcast) really covers the whole thing pretty well. Discussion about this episodeNavigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution!Navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution!