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When the overall economy grows, the demand for human labor often grows with it — it doesn’t shrink. That has been the story of 200+ years of industrialization: new technology eliminates some jobs, but it also creates new industries, new demand, and new kinds of work. We heard the same panic about radiologists. In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton famously suggested we should stop training radiologists because AI would outperform them. Yet in 2026, we need more radiologists, not fewer. The job is changing, not disappearing. You even see a similar dynamic with immigration. Immigrants don’t just “take jobs”; they also create demand, start businesses, pay taxes, and expand the market. Remove them, and the economy often shrinks — meaning fewer jobs overall, not more. TL;DR: AI is not simply “coming for your job.” Yes, the nature of work will change. We no longer employ “human calculators,” but society didn’t run out of work. We created better, more productive jobs than doing arithmetic by hand all day. |