Despite the concerns surrounding job loss due to AI, there’s a compelling argument to be made for how AI could actually increase your salary. Let’s revisit the principles of supply and demand. Currently, the world has a certain amount of human processing power and a certain amount of AI processing power. However, one of these is growing exponentially, while the other’s growth rate is declining.

As AI processing power continues to rise, it will eventually compete with other AI processing power for value creation, which is ultimately judged by humans. This means that human processing power will become more scarce and, as a result, more valuable.

This assumption is based on the idea that human brains are not perfectly reproducible in bits and bytes, and therefore, there is a fundamental difference between human and AI processing power. The human brain is a remarkable entity, the result of an 800MB file (the human genome) that builds a conscious machine, with 100 trillion nerve links across 37 trillion nodes, and can even live-patch its code.

Furthermore, the human brain can run a 20-watt exaFLOP supercomputer on the caloric intake of a sandwich and pack 215 petabytes of data into a single gram. This incredible complexity and efficiency make human labor uniquely valuable, and as AI takes over more routine tasks, the value of human skills and abilities will only continue to rise.

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