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A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (730+ words) Published Mar 8, 2026 12: 00 PM EDT While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an AI-triggered job apocalypse is nigh are coming to a boiling point. Last week, Twitter cofounder and Block (formerly…...
You'll Snort-Laugh When You Learn How Much AI Actually Added to the US Economy Last Year
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (394+ words) Published Mar 23, 2026 3: 37 PM EDT Scanning the headlines, it can be easy to get the impression that every investor, banker, and financial analyst is enamored with AI. Yet this simplified view obscures a more complicated story: the US economy isn't where…...
There's a Mass Rebellion Against AI in the Workplace
2+ week, 5+ day ago (411+ words) Published Apr 11, 2026 6: 45 AM EDT With consumers roundly panning generative AI slop wherever it's found, tech companies have set their sights on a more captive audience as a source of revenue: the world's boardrooms and cubicle farms. But the office, it…...
AI Is Forcing Employees to Work Harder Than Ever
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (969+ words) At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic…...
Looks Like the Economy Is Hitting a "Nightmare Scenario"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (567+ words) Published Mar 9, 2026 10: 56 AM EDT Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have ground to a halt, cutting off much of the world from vital oil supplies due to the United States…...
AI Will Destroy Millions of White Collars Jobs in the Coming Months, Andrew Yang Warns, Driving Surge of Personal Bankruptcies
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (392+ words) Published Feb 19, 2026 9: 01 AM EST Andrew Yang " millionaire entrepreneur, noted Ivy leaguer, and one-time presidential hopeful " has a grim warning for his fellow salaried professionals: AI is about to wipe "millions" of office jobs over the coming months. In an essay…...
Economist Warns That the Poor Will Bear the Brunt of AI's Effects on the Job Market
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (359+ words) Published Feb 12, 2026 11: 14 AM EST While tech executives wax poetic about AI ushering in four-day workweeks and liberation from labor, economics guru Robert Reich is cutting through the drivel. In an ominous new essay, the former secretary of labor warns that…...
Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It's Pushing Down Wages
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (422+ words) Published Feb 1, 2026 7: 30 AM EST Billionaire tech CEOs have often insisted that AI is ushering in an era of plenty, in which automation will provide unthinkable abundance even among the poorest in society. Not everyone takes their word for it. As…...
Business Leaders Suddenly Fearful as Anger Surges Over AI Replacing Human Jobs
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (330+ words) Published Jan 23, 2026 3: 02 PM EST It's an agonizing time for the labor market in the US, where unemployment is on the rise and wages are stagnant. Though there's raging debate over what degree of blame AI holds for the sorry state…...
The Ultra-Wealthy Are Demanding to Pay Higher Taxes
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (407+ words) Published Jan 22, 2026 3: 06 PM EST The loudest calls for taxing the ultra-rich amid this year's Davos summit aren't coming from hooded anarchists or revolutionary socialists, but from the one-percenters themselves. We're not joking. While some of the richest individuals in history…...