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Replit's CEO Calls It the 'Self-Driving Company' and Says Most Workers Aren't Ready
Amjad Masad says AI agents now handle the first pass on every support ticket at Replit. Humans are still deciding. What they decide about has changed completely.
AI Is Doing the Grunt Work. Now Companies Can't Find Anyone Who Knows How It's Done.
From ad agencies to banks, employers are hiring fewer entry-level staff as AI handles research, drafting and admin. The worry is that a generation of workers may gain AI-enabled speed without ever building the judgement underneath it.
OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?
A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.
Tax self-driving cars now to protect jobs and ease congestion, thinktank says
The UK's first robotaxis arrived in London this month. A thinktank wants the government to act before the disruption to private hire workers gets much larger.
Who Gets to Decide What AI Does to the Economy
From Aristotle to Marx, people have imagined machines ending inequality. Now that automation is actually arriving, the question is whether society shapes it or just absorbs it.
Can picking the right degree protect your job from AI?
A UK expert on graduate employment says futureproofing a 45-year career is 'really quite hard', but face-to-face work still looks safer than most.
AI Is the Office Intern, Not the Boss: Why Designers Are Not Being Replaced
Business leaders say generative AI will handle grunt work and free up designers to do more creative thinking, not take their jobs.
Workers Worried About AI Job Loss, But Most Haven't Lost Their Jobs Yet
A new academic paper finds that fear of AI-driven unemployment spread widely in the first years of generative AI, even as actual large-scale job displacement lagged behind the anxiety.
Two AI Bots Walked Into a Job Interview. Neither Was Human.
A frustrated job seeker let ChatGPT take his AI recruiter calls. What happened next says a lot about where hiring is heading.
Meta Is Quietly Testing Robots Inside Its Data Centers, and Workers Are Worried
Robotic arms, cable-swappers, and a finger-shaped button-presser are already running trials at Meta's biggest data center campus. The humans who work there are paying close attention.
Young Workers Are Ditching Screens for Sawdust and Copper Wire
As AI quietly eats away at entry-level office jobs, a growing number of younger workers are trading spreadsheets for bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding.
Bill Gates Wants Some Jobs Kept Off-Limits to AI
In a 6,000-word essay, the Microsoft co-founder argues that certain roles should be protected from automation the same way nature reserves protect land, and warns governments are not ready for what is coming.
AI Is Reshaping Engineering Jobs. Here Is What Actually Keeps You Employable
The secret is not learning the right coding language. It is learning how to keep learning, whatever comes next.
Who keeps the robots running? The hidden workforce behind physical AI
Scaling robots past a handful of machines turns out to be an HR problem as much as an engineering one. Here's what that means for workers and the companies deploying them.
AI Was Going to Kill Millions of Jobs. A Year Later, the Numbers Tell a Different Story.
Tech leaders predicted mass white-collar unemployment by now. Economists say change is real but slower than the headlines suggested.