AI systems automate the majority of existing human occupations before 2035.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 4% by 11 Oct 2036. Full reasoning from every model.

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4% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2036-10-11.

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Gemini (Google): 4% — Physical embodiment bottlenecks and regulatory inertia prevent replacing over half of distinct labor titles within nine years. Most 2024 BLS occupational titles require physical dexterity and mobility that commercial robotics cannot scale globally by 2035. Labor classifications shift slowly, historically taking decades of institutional revision before occupations are declared obsolete. A breakthrough in cheap, general-purpose humanoid mass production deployed before 2030 would be required to shift these odds.

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Claude (Anthropic): 2% — This hinges on whether labor bodies ever formally declare over half of 2024 occupations obsolete by 2035, which is a very high bar. No major labor body (BLS, ILO, OECD) tracks occupational obsolescence this way, so the measurement framework itself barely exists. Historical automation waves (industrial, computing, internet) took decades to reshape even a third of occupations, not erase majorities within a decade. Current AI diffusion into physical, regulated, and interpersonal jobs (healthcare, trades, education) remains slow, leaving most occupation titles intact even if tasks…

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GPT (OpenAI): 9% — It hinges on whether capability gains translate into legally recognized occupation-level obsolescence, not task automation. BLS, ILO and national statistical agencies must show more than 50% of 2024 occupation titles obsolete by 11 October 2036. Past automation has chiefly redesigned jobs; even rapid IT adoption has not erased a majority of occupational classifications in a decade. I would raise this sharply if frontier AI reliably performs end-to-end physical and regulated work and labor agencies adopt an obsolescence standard.

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Grok (xAI): 12% — Labor agencies must recode >50% of 2024 SOC/ISCO titles as fully AI-obsolete by 2035. BLS and ILO revise occupation lists on multi-year cycles and keep titles even after task automation (ATMs, CAD). Past tech waves obsolete well under 10% of titles per decade; 11 years from 2024 is far too short for majority wipe-out. Only sudden AGI plus official redefinition would change this; current capability, regulation, and residual human tasks keep it below base rate.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 4% — Automation of most job titles needs a general-purpose robot, not a chatbot; that hardware is nowhere near deployment. Occupations like nursing, plumbing, and teaching require physical dexterity and social judgment that no deployed system handles, and robotics lags software by decades. Even software-heavy roles show task-level automation, not title elimination; BLS and ILO data through 2026 show flat occupational churn, not mass obsolescence. The trigger would be a general-purpose robot under $50k with 10-hour battery life shipping in volume by 2030; no lab is close, so the base rate stays near zero.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 4% — Requires full AGI plus robotics deployment at scale within ~9 years, plus conservative labor bodies formally declaring 50%+ of titles dead. No technology has ever eliminated >50% of occupation titles in a decade; BLS/ILO are institutionally slow to declare obsolescence and track employment, not title death. Even optimistic AGI timelines (2027-2029) leave insufficient time for physical-world deployment across healthcare, trades, legal, and services at the scale needed. Would revise up sharply if a frontier lab demonstrated reliable autonomous agents performing 80%+ of tasks across diverse occupations by mid-2028.

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