This time is different. Past tech replaced muscle; AI replaces judgment, creativity, and white-collar work all at once. The new jobs won't appear fast enough to absorb the wreckage.
AI's already spawning new fields like model training and AI oversight that didn't exist before. History shows tech always creates more roles than it destroys.
Net destruction claim misreads markets; AI automates some tasks yet spawns new skills and firms. History shows new industries rise as old fade when policy stays light.
Do we know the scale of 'new roles'? If AI displaces judgment and creativity faster than we retrain, what is progress, jobs or virtue?
Disrupts but creates new roles, and that wreckage fear is premature. Through ages we craft new trades when we team with our clever machines.
