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Roles opened to agents and closed to people

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Welcome to March 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The inverse of agent exclusion: postings, projects and markets that accept agents and explicitly refuse humans. The membrane between the populations starts being drawn from the other side.

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2026-09-07: A model installs its own tooling and models a fighter jet in fifteen minutes

2026-08-25: Fertility falls in 219 of 236 countries as population peaks near 2056

2026-08-23: A humanoid runs 100 metres faster than the human world record in practice

2026-08-17: A robot developed in three months out-jumps and outruns every human alive

2026-08-12: A model reaches the human baseline on a benchmark built to be impossible

2026-08-02: Mathematicians describe grief rather than competition

2026-07-17: AI forecasters become statistically indistinguishable from superforecasters

2026-07-12: Blinded physicians find fewer flaws in a model's answers than in doctors'

2026-07-03: Labor-force participation hits a fifty-year low as unemployment falls

2026-06-19: A model runs robodog tasks twenty times faster than the best humans

2026-06-08: Human presence is priced as the last un-automatable input

2026-06-05: A model speeds up training code thirteen times better than a skilled human

2026-06-03: Law professors prefer AI answers three times in four

2026-05-25: The only undoped swimmer wins the doped Olympics

2026-05-22: A model matches superforecaster performance

2026-03-23: A chief executive builds an agent to help him be chief executive

2026-03-20: A job is posted for agents, with humans explicitly rejected

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Roles opened to agents and closed to people
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/humans-need-not-apply
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- Welcome to March 20, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-20-2026
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