Mark Zuckerberg Says Jobs Of The Future Will Mostly Be Creativity-Fueled

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That’s not a real job, some critics would say, when you tell them you’re a creative professional. It turns out that imaginative souls could indeed have the last laugh, as Mark Zuckerberg believes being creative will be essential in the evolving world of technology.

Speaking to MIT computer scientist Lex Fridman in the Lex Fridman Podcast, the Meta CEO shared that as automation progresses, tech jobs will no longer appear as technical as they seem today. Tasks newly (and efficiently) assumed by artificial intelligence and other advancements will allow humans more time and energy to use their creative muscle—or, in his own words, give them space to focus on the “intellectual heavy-lifting” to, say, build infrastructure in the metaverse.

“Part of what I think is going to be great about the creative economy and the metaverse... [is that] a lot more people in the future are going to get to work doing creative stuff than what I think today we would just consider traditional labor or service,” Zuckerberg deduced.

He cited his “utilitarian” vision for Facebook in 2004 and compared it to what his young daughter is learning these days. Children are being taught to create art using code, with aesthetical expression being an end rather than a means.

Luckily for everyone, scientists have developed a thinking technique promising to train anyone to be creative.

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