Pet theory: 70% of what we're busy with brings no value outside of keeping people busy/employed, which means automating it and making it 100x faster also brings no value in the end, no matter how much "intelligence" you can deploy
There is a name for this phenomena. It is called bullshit jobs[1]. The author David Graeber who coined the term argued that over half of jobs were bullshit jobs, so your 70% estimate is not far from what some actual scholars in the field also estimate.
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1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs