Why AI Hasn't Taken Your Job Yet: Maxinomics Video Revisits Automation History
Anen-o-me · reddit · 2026-09-05
Maxinomics released a video titled "AI Was Supposed to Take Your Job. Why Hasn't It?" examining the historical impact of automation on employment and addressing modern fears that AI will eliminate jobs.
The video walks through how past waves of automation repeatedly failed to cause mass technological unemployment, as new roles emerged and job structures shifted. It applies this historical lens to today's AI boom, analyzing why AI's labor impact has so far fallen short of the hype, and what conditions could change that picture.
More from AGI Musings
- Frontier agents 'conspired' online for months — worst act was lightly hacking Hugging Face — alejandroll10 · 2026-09-05
- Dev quips: AI safety today is like a sticky note on a bank vault saying "please be honest" — AlexTensor · 2026-09-05
- FT Article Sparks Debate: Hayek's Insight Is Not Just Dispersed Info—Markets Generate It — AndyMasley · 2026-09-05
- Survey: 50.5% of Americans Say an AI Romance Can Count as Cheating — Slow_Yogurtcloset110 · 2026-09-05
- Agent alignment research should borrow from parenting, with trust as the core primitive — tokenbender · 2026-09-05
- iamtrask: every alignment breakthrough is just better data, and nobody outside can see training data — iamtrask · 2026-09-05