The jobs most protected from AI aren't necessarily the most credentialed ones. They're the ones where tasks are so tightly bundled together that pulling one thread unravels the whole thing.

In this episode, Ben sits down with Luis Garicano, LSE professor and author of Messy Jobs, to dig into what makes some work durable, how organizations need to reconfigure around AI, and why Europe may be in serious trouble.

Topics covered:

• Clean vs. messy jobs: why single-task, easily reinforced work is what AI takes first
• The unbundling productivity trade-off: why breaking jobs apart unlocks more growth but also drives wages down as labor supply floods a narrower set of tasks
• Why technology without business process reconfiguration produces almost no productivity gains
• The junior professional problem in t ...