AI is destroying jobs – and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott
TL;DR
Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren’t planning a human response on the scale required The transition to a world of artificial intelligence has given a whole new meaning to the concept that capitalism can only renew itself through creative destruction. This is the idea that clapped-out technologies have to be replaced by new ways of doing things, even though the process can be brutal.
Nauti's Take
The historical comparison is useful — every industrial wave produced new jobs alongside displaced ones. The genuine concern: AI operates at cognitive scale and speed that previous transitions did not, and government response is lagging badly.
Those in knowledge-intensive roles have a real window now to build AI skills before the curve steepens further.
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