Prepare for an AI Jobs Apocalypse

edward 14 points 8 comments May 15, 2026
www.economist.com · View on Hacker News

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jazz9k

Companies want to look good to share holders, in an already bad economy. Layoffs+ai investments looks like a solid plan to increase value. Now we have articles like this, also pushing false narratives about AI, to suppirt a socialist/communist utopia through UBI.

sergiosgc

https://archive.is/VLWWE

tabs_or_spaces

So the article doesn't mention how the individual should prepare, but rather that government should prepare. Are individuals just that powerless against these perceived outcomes with AI? My opinion is that AI can be a force for good, but why is everything so aggressively framed as a class war? Why must such a path be taken? I wonder if this is how things were during the industrial revolution as well

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