AI Won’t Take Your Job — It’ll Take Your Leverage

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People ask which jobs are safe from AI the way passengers on a sinking ship ask which deck is safest. It is the wrong unit of analysis. “Job” is a legal and HR container; “work” is a bundle of tasks; “tasks” are what automation eats. Generative AI does not need to “replace your profession” to destroy your job. It only needs to replace the parts of your week that justify … Read the rest

Breaking the Thermometer

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Imagine a lighthouse on a cold coast. It is not glamorous. It does not vote, it does not donate, it does not clap at rallies. Its job is boring: it blinks, night after night, so ships do not discover the rocks the hard way. Now imagine a politician points at the lighthouse and says, with a straight face, “That blinking is panic. We will break up the lighthouse because it … Read the rest