Experts are training AI on how to do their jobs

What happened: Freelancers are training AI models for Mercor, a company with more than 100,000 freelancers teaching AI subjects from finance to poetry. Law firm Vorys worked with Stanford's Liftlab to build AI personas trained on senior lawyers' experience. Key numbers: Mercor has over 100,000 freelancers; gig pay can be $20 to $200 an hour; Pew finds nearly Why it matters: Trainers and executives say AI is designed for optimization, not replacement, while economist Daron Acemoglu warns displacement could outpace the small number of AI training jobs and says the window to act is closing.

Freelancers are training AI models for Mercor, a company with more than 100,000 freelancers teaching AI subjects from finance to poetry. Law firm Vorys worked with Stanford's Liftlab to build AI personas trained on senior lawyers' experience.

Trainers and executives say AI is designed for optimization, not replacement, while economist Daron Acemoglu warns displacement could outpace the small number of AI training jobs and says the window to act is closing.