The New Yorker: The AI jobs apocalypse hasn't arrived — something else is happening
MFordFuture · x · 2026-10-05
- Joshua Rothman's New Yorker column examines why the predicted AI jobs apocalypse hasn't materialized, and what's happening instead.
- It opens with a scenario: a new grad, Claudette, feeds brainstorm transcripts into an LLM, delegates research to AI agents with fact-checker agents, and produces a fully researched proposal with visuals in a week versus weeks of traditional work.
- Drawing on economists' "messy jobs" thesis — jobs relying on tacit knowledge and coordination stay safe for now — the piece frames this as an observation of the present rather than a permanent law.
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