Masters in Business · Friday, July 3, 2026
Mamoon Hamid argues that AI will primarily enhance, rather than replace, white-collar labor, drawing parallels to the adoption of email and computers. He notes that AI is creating new types of jobs and augmenting existing roles, citing the need for more skilled labor and the potential for AI to democratize access to services.
“I actually fully agree with that point of view that you have. Uh it is it's it's like you know, uh getting email. I mean I think, uh, the fact that we got the computer, didn't you know, the people using the typewriters started using computer and started doing other types of jobs.”
“I don't think humans are going out of style. I don't think you know, the world is going to be largely unemployed and on UBI because we are going to displace all this work and all these people with AI.”
“I don't think you need to be a software developer and study CS anymore because you know these software jobs are going away. It is like now now the job of the software engineer is to manage a whole hosts to agents and make them do work for them and be the brains behind the operation.”