Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions

AI Influencer Matt Shumer penned a viral blog on X about AI’s potential to disrupt, and ultimately automate, almost all knowledge work that has racked up more than 55 million views in the past 24 hours.

Shumer’s 5,000-word essay certainly hit a nerve. Written in a breathless tone, the blog is constructed as a warning to friends and family about how their jobs are about to be radically upended. (Fortune also ran an adapted version of Shumer’s post as a commentary piece.)

“On February 5th...