The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Oct 14, 2026 · 18 min · 11 segments
AI was supposed to replace writing. Instead, it made storytelling more valuable. In this Deep Dive, Scott explains why companies are paying a premium for perspective and taste in a world flooded with…
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If a machine can draft an email, write a press release, or generate an essay in seconds, what's left? Meanwhile, jobs including plumbing, surgery, even coding felt much safer.
When AI got good enough to read medical scans, the prediction was immediate and confident.
If a machine can read them, then why do you need a doctor? But the opposite happened.
Since those predictions, the Mayo Clinic's radiology staff has grown by 55%, according to The New York Times.
And in 2025, radiology was the second highest paid medical specialty in America, with average incomes 48% higher than a decade ago.
Why? Because we confuse the most visible part of the job with the most valuable part of the job.
A study of radiologists across three hospitals found that only 36%, a little more than a third, of their time was spent actually reading scans, the part AI can do.
The rest was human judgment, deciding what matters, guiding treatment, asking the right questions.
98% of typists went away, and this was happening during the '80s when I was growing up.
But my mom went upstream and did the hard part of the job, and that was managing her boss and making his life easier.
My mother became a personal assistant, or what some people refer to as a secretary.
But once the internet got flooded with generic cookie-cutter content, it became clear the words were never the point.
If a machine can draft an email, write a press release, or generate an essay in seconds, what's left? Meanwhile, jobs including plumbing, surgery, even coding felt much safer.
When AI got good enough to read medical scans, the prediction was immediate and confident.
If a machine can read them, then why do you need a doctor? But the opposite happened.
Since those predictions, the Mayo Clinic's radiology staff has grown by 55%, according to The New York Times.
And in 2025, radiology was the second highest paid medical specialty in America, with average incomes 48% higher than a decade ago.
Why? Because we confuse the most visible part of the job with the most valuable part of the job.
A study of radiologists across three hospitals found that only 36%, a little more than a third, of their time was spent actually reading scans, the part AI can do.
The rest was human judgment, deciding what matters, guiding treatment, asking the right questions.
98% of typists went away, and this was happening during the '80s when I was growing up.
But my mom went upstream and did the hard part of the job, and that was managing her boss and making his life easier.
My mother became a personal assistant, or what some people refer to as a secretary.
But once the internet got flooded with generic cookie-cutter content, it became clear the words were never the point.
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