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Brendan Foody: belief

7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work

“I think there will be a lot of second chances, and the reason that there will be is that oftentimes they’re effective.”

— Brendan Foody

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Brendan Foody
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belief
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7 Jan 2026
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Conversations with Tyler

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…In the AI-run labor market, let’s say, it’s more efficient, but do you think there are fewer second chances, and late bloomers in that world? You get scored too early, so to speak, and then you’re tracked. It’s a bit more like how European schooling systems can differ from American. I think there will be a lot of second chances, and the reason that there will be is that oftentimes they’re effective. The models will identify that, and realize that maybe someone wasn’t the right fit for that first role. There’s another role that they could be a really good fit for. I do think that there are jobs in the economy that almost everyone would excel at, and it’s really just this matching problem of finding the intersection of something that they’re excited about where they’ll also add an immense amount of economic value. As you know, there are AI services now. You’re doing an interview across the top or the bottom of your screen. The AI can give you advice, answers. Does that work at all? What do you think of those?…

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