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It is inaccurate and psychologically harmful to claim that all jobs are going away or that AI will create a permanent underclass.
Matan Grinberg pushes back hard on doomer rhetoric about AI eliminating all jobs, arguing the narrative is both factually wrong and damaging to the people who will be central to building the future. ✦ AI generated
Matan Grinberg · The Generalist · 2026-06-30 · original ↗
There are a lot of people that are going out there and saying things like, 'all jobs are going away,' or 'we're going to automate everything,' or this language about the permanent underclass. And it really upsets me because not only is it inaccurate, but it's really harmful to the psychology of a lot of people that I think have a very important role to play in the future of humanity.
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- ·Claims of total automation and 'permanent underclass' are inaccurate
- ·Rhetoric mischaracterizes how AI will actually affect work
- ·Matan Grinberg pushes back hard on doomer framing
- ·Doomer language harms the psychology of many people
- ·Those affected have an important role in humanity's future
- ·Being factually wrong compounds the damage done
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Evidence · 3
There is no AI-driven jobs crisis as of now — the overall occupational mix in the economy has not shifted in ways that clearly track AI adoption, and measured AI usage shows no connection to employment or unemployment changes.Yale Budget Lab · Platformer · conf 80%Despite dramatic improvements in AI model performance, the majority of engineers will not be laid off — if anything, developers are busier than ever.NeetCode (Navdeep Singh) · The Pragmatic Engineer · conf 75%Just as people fail to grasp exponential change during a technology shift, they also wrongly assume that making existing work easier through automation shrinks the total amount of work, when productivity gains actually create entirely new scenarios and expand the pie.Stephen Sinofsky · a16z Podcast · conf 70%
Counterpoint · 3
Technology has always displaced jobs, but the danger this time is that the speed of AI-driven job destruction is outpacing the creation of new jobs and society's ability to retrain workers, exemplified by a 50-something truck driver whose livelihood vanishes to automation.Glenn Fogel · No Priors · conf 70%AI is beginning to erode entry-level work specifically: jobs most exposed to AI have shrunk while less-exposed jobs grew, and early-career jobs shrank sharply this year while mid-career jobs grew.Casey Newton · Platformer · conf 70%The economics profession and policymakers are not prepared for the scale of labor-market disruption that transformative AI is about to cause, even though views within the profession have shifted noticeably toward taking this risk seriously.Erik Brynjolfsson · Platformer · conf 60%
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rebuts → Every single job will either be replaced or enhanced by AI, and it may be an acceptable outcome for GDP, profit margins, and wages to grow even while employment does not.Marc Rowan · a16z Podcastrebuts → Technology has always displaced jobs, but the danger this time is that the speed of AI-driven job destruction is outpacing the creation of new jobs and society's ability to retrain workers, exemplified by a 50-something truck driver whose livelihood vanishes to automation.Glenn Fogel · No Priorsrebuts → AI is beginning to erode entry-level work specifically: jobs most exposed to AI have shrunk while less-exposed jobs grew, and early-career jobs shrank sharply this year while mid-career jobs grew.Casey Newton · Platformer