Brendan Foody

CEO, Mercor

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“I think a significant portion of things. Everything that humans want AI to be able to do — we wanna teach it how to do that.”
Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs | 60 Minutes60 Minutes (CBS News), October 5, 2026. Mercor's CEO, asked whether the goal is for AI to do anything humans can do.
“Well, I think that you're changing human work. It might not necessarily be that repetitive task that people have done in the past, but there's still so many other things that people could be able to do. And so I think that evolution is natural.”
Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs | 60 Minutes60 Minutes (CBS News), October 5, 2026. Answering whether training AI to do what people spent careers perfecting endangers human work.

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  1. Video60 Minutes (CBS News)Speaks

    Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs | 60 Minutes

    In a 13-minute 60 Minutes segment, Jon Wertheim asks whether AI will take jobs or change them. CBS profiles Mercor, which pays experts to train AI models, and a law firm's AI partner personas. Mercor's CEO and a lawyer expect work to evolve; Clara Shih and economist Daron Acemoglu warn of large job losses.