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AI's Rise: Threatening Jobs and Creating New Underclass?
10/17/2025
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Story summary
- The New Yorker reports that rapid AI advancement in the workplace could create a permanent underclass.
- Leopold Aschenbrenner, an OpenAI employee, warns AI could exceed human capacity by 2027 and threaten jobs.
- The 2023 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike established that writers may use AI as a tool but cannot be replaced by it.
- Historical examples show that unionization can effectively address the challenges posed by technological advancements.
