AI already beats humans at reading the emotion on your face. So why can't it read the room?

In part two of his series on work in the age of superintelligent AI, David Deming - labor economist and Dean of Harvard College - argues that technology doesn't end work, it reprices skills. Mechanized farming made muscle cheap and literacy valuable. As AI makes intelligence abundant, the next skill to be repriced upward is one we barely think of as a skill at all.

Along the way: what a benchwarmer taught the NBA about hidden value, what a parking lot full of food trucks reveals about the limits of machine social reasoning, the research finding that being a team player matters about as much as IQ, and why a relationship is not a transcript.

Try the PAGE emotion-perception test: https://skillslab.dev

Watch part one, “AI Will Beat You at Everything. You’ll Still Have a Job”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWaq1rI4D6w

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