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Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Eagle
9 hours ago

Is AI Coming For Your Job? History Says No.

AI can raise average wages and reduce inequality by simplifying complex tasks, enabling less-credentialed workers to perform high-level work.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 days ago

Why the AI boom is forcing a rethink of career success | Fortune

AI is likely to raise the value of hands-on, digitally enabled blue-collar roles, shifting leadership advancement toward practical system expertise.
World news
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Palantir's billionaire CEO studied philosophy - now he says AI will destroy humanities jobs

AI will reduce demand for humanities graduates while increasing demand for technical, vocational, and technician skills.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 months ago

AI agents and robots can already automate over 57% of U.S. work hours, but that doesn't mean half of all jobs are endangered, McKinsey says | Fortune

AI can technically automate about 57% of U.S. work hours, but human skills and organizational redesign will shape collaboration rather than mass job loss.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Alex Karp says the left's 'Mamdani wing' and the 'woke right' are the biggest threats to Palantir

Our competition is actually political. The woke left and the woke right wake up every day, figuring out how they can hurt Palantir. And if they get into power, they'll hurt Palantir.
US politics
Left-wing politics
fromAxios
2 months ago

Behind the Curtain: Anti-AI socialism could be Democrats' future

Progressive politicians prioritize framing AI as a political fight to protect workers and channel AI-generated wealth toward working-class families, energizing young democratic socialists.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
4 months ago

Now OpenAI is coming for LinkedIn

OpenAI proposes to automate hiring by matching candidates to roles without résumés or applications, challenging LinkedIn and reshaping human resources around AI fluency.
Left-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial

Rapid AI adoption enriches shareholders while eroding workers' livelihoods, reducing entry-level jobs, imposing environmental costs, and amplifying cultural and social harms.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
4 months ago

AI is eating the first rung of the career ladder. What happens when new grads can't get a foothold?

Early-career workers in AI-exposed roles have experienced significant employment declines since late 2022, while senior roles have largely been spared.
US politics
fromFast Company
5 months ago

As AI amplifies American exceptionalism, job insecurity could become the new norm

AI will amplify American labor insecurity by accelerating employer-driven automation within a weak welfare, at-will, and deunionized U.S. labor system.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

Seven Summer-Weekend Reads

A curated set of cultural and political pieces spotlights personal habits, moral decline, AI's impact on labor, inequality, and nostalgic reflections on youth consumer culture.
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