The "AI Job Apocalypse" is CANCELLED!

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Permanent underclass 🙄. People be acting like thats currently not a thing and that theyre not apart of it.

They're changing their tune because of the backlash. Every CEO is using AI as a scapegoat to cut their workforce. This change of tactic is more like damage control. But a lot of the same students protesting against AI are using it to cheat on their assignments.

If it makes you feel better. But if one person can supervise the output that previously required 10 workers, that is still labor displacement, even if some humans remain in the loop. Saying that AI still needs humans supervising it isn't proof that existential AI risk is over. And I don't believe a word of what AI CEO's say. They could be sitting on Terminator level AI and not say a word until it gave them an immediate economic competitive advantage.

I am 80% sure the real reason is that after 2 years of scaremongering and paying politicians to make the problem they fearmonger even worse people got angry and there were attempted assassinations and attacks on AI labs, so they are now toning it down. The remaining 20% is because adoption of AI tools has been underwhelming in lot of sectors, partially caused by people using older models, doing stupid things like "tokenmaxxing" (wasting money for sake of wasting money) and reporting being almost a year behind state of the art (random study showing AI agents dont work, but they have been doing the experiment in late 2024, then released it in mid 2025 and people quote it in early 2026)

Universities curricula still have to adapt in most countries people keep preparing themselves for something that no longer exists/is-needrd

The “human sandwich” model is useful, but I think it describes a transition phase. AI is already moving from execution into evaluation: ranking outputs, comparing tradeoffs, judging code quality, matching taste/style, and suggesting next steps. Taste isn’t magic. It’s pattern recognition + context + feedback + goals — and AI is getting better at all of those. Also, personal productivity examples don’t fully map to organizations. Cheap competence may create more ambition, but it can also mean fewer people or fewer junior roles.

Some people will be busier but there's only so many jobs that can scale up, there's a cap on the requirements for sushi makers for instance, once a robot does it there's no expanded job for a human to be 10x more productive at sushi.. the same for most jobs especially physical jobs. And many jobs are process jobs, once an ai can do a process there's far fewer jobs for humans

Jobs related to human perspective, human experience will continue to be relevant for a while. Travel and culinary vloggers for example or reviews. They won't go too soon. Jobs related to economic output will disappear completely. Automated flows will replace pretty much everyone outside of a few key observers and human validators, but they will get fewer and fewer with time as well. In the end, humanity will be absolutely left out of jobs. Let's not focus only on the short-term, the next 5 to 10 years. We're speaking long term, 10 years and beyond.

Founder CEOs won't get less busy but "I want to go home at 5pm and not talk about work until tomorrow" is going away.