In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen 2026-10-21-2
Eric Schmidt: The Age of Agents, Superintelligence, and Why Europe Is Falling Behind
Schmidt says the gains are real but concentrated in software, cyber and math, where learning loops are fast, and biology lags on data. The effect he is most confident about is organizational: a friend's firm cut 20% of staff, the 'glue' planners, and an estimated 2,000 of 10,000 people at a large firm are unneeded. Read against deBoer's cancer example, displacement arrives first where the work is coordination, not where the problem is physical.