When to choose AI over humans

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:37:14 +0000

I charted the OpenAI GDPVal paper with industry compensation as the size and AI augmentation as color. Big green areas are we’re paying people where AI does better.

Click here to see the interactive visualization.

Clicking to see some actual tasks compared.

I use this to check whom to ask advice: AI or professional.

AI beats Personal Financial Advisors ~64% of the time. So I invested half my money using ChatGPT’s recommendation. (UTI Nifty 50, if you’re curious.)

Accountants beat AI 76% of the time. So my tax returns are still filed by Ventura Pranas.

AI beats Government - Administrative Services Managers 62% of the time. I haven’t figured out how to bypass them yet. Nor customer service representatives.

Overall, AI beats most managers and clerks, not industrial engineers and pharmacists.

Here’s my current thought where I wouldn’t hire AI if a high portion of their work

Has legal liability (e.g. pharmacist/judge vs shop attendant/lawyer)
Is subjective (e.g. perfumer/auction appraiser vs lab chemist/insurance appraiser)
Needs rapid contextual decisions (e.g. detective/fireman/ER vs parking enforcer)

But this apart, if they charged half, would their demand double? If so, even with AI, they’ll have more demand.

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