Luiza Jarovsky: significant unemployment in the next 5 years is hard to avoid
LuizaJarovsky · x · 2026-10-05
AI policy researcher Luiza Jarovsky argues the next five years will likely bring significant unemployment: companies are already shrinking workforces, and frontier AI firms may swallow millions of SMEs through verticalization. Hundreds of millions of people won't fit the new AI economy, and data-center jobs won't fill the gap. She criticizes industry figures who downplay this, warning of destructive idleness, anger, and rising chaos — while hoping to be proven wrong.
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