The AI 'job apocalypse' that never came
For the past two years, a steady drumbeat of headlines has warned us to prepare for a “job apocalypse.” From Silicon Valley boardrooms to the halls of Congress, the narrative was settled: generative artificial intelligence would hollow out the middle class, erase entry-level careers, and leave a trail of mass displacement in its wake. We were told that the cognitive revolution would succeed where the industrial revolution failed — by finally making the human worker obsolete.