Karpathy scored every job in America for AI risk. Then deleted it.
On a random Saturday morning, Andrej Karpathy: OpenAI co-founder, ex-Tesla AI director, genuinely one of the most respected researchers alive, built a tool that scored all 342 U.S. occupations on how replaceable they are by AI. Zero to ten. Then he pulled the GitHub repo and called it a "vibe coded weekend project inspired by a book he was reading."
Classic move. Drop a bomb, shrug, walk away.
The methodology was pretty clean: scrape every occupation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, feed each one to an LLM with a detailed rubric, visualize it as an interactive treemap where block size = number of jobs and color = exposure level. His core rule was simple — if your entire output is digital and you could do it from a home office, your score is high.
The stat that hit different: jobs paying over $100K averaged a score of 6.7. Jobs paying under $35K averaged 3.4. The people who spent four years and six figures on a degree are, per this tool, more exposed than the people who skipped all that and learned a trade.
42% of jobs scored 7 or higher. That's about 60 million workers.
The GitHub repo is gone but the site stayed up, and forks kept it alive. The internet doesn't really let you walk things back anymore.
Elon said "all jobs will be optional." The Uber founder said plumbers will make LeBron money.
Predictably, the Karpathy post pulled in a full circus of replies. Elon jumped in to say all jobs will eventually be optional and there will be "universal high income." He has been saying some version of this for years. Whether you believe it or find it deeply detached from reality probably depends on where you sit.
Meanwhile, Uber founder Travis Kalanick came at it from the opposite angle — arguing AI will actually make human labor more valuable, not less. His example: plumbers could end up making "LeBron-like money" in an automated world because physical, hands-on work becomes genuinely scarce.
That's not a crazy argument when you look at the scores. Roofers at 0-2. Plumbers at 0-2. If everyone displaced from desk jobs starts retraining for trades, the trades get crowded and wages start rising anyway — but the people already there win big first.
Two very different futures being pitched simultaneously. One guy says you won't need to work at all. The other says your plumber will be rich. Somehow both might be directionally correct.
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