{"id":513682,"date":"2026-03-04T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513682\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:11:08","slug":"why-ai-probably-wont-take-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513682\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI (Probably) Won\u2019t Take Your Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpeaflcio.org\/factsheets\/the-professional-and-technical-workforce-by-the-numbers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">90 million<\/a> Americans who works a white-collar job, then in the past few months you\u2019ve received a clear message: You\u2019re probably going to get screwed. AI will take half of all white-collar jobs in the next four years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/28\/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei; expect 20 percent unemployment. \u201cNothing that can be done on a computer is safe in the medium term,\u201d wrote AI investor Matt Shumer in <a href=\"https:\/\/shumer.dev\/something-big-is-happening\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a viral post<\/a>. Last week week a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citriniresearch.com\/p\/2028gic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">viral scenario<\/a> from Citrini Research projected a \u201chuman intelligence displacement spiral\u201d caused by AI within two years.<\/p>\n<p>But if doom is coming, no one\u2019s told the bosses. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w34836\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent survey<\/a> of 6,000 chief executives across four countries found that they expect AI to cut employment by just 0.7 percent over the next three years. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.org\/voxeu\/columns\/how-ai-affecting-productivity-and-jobs-europe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent analysis<\/a> of over 12,000 European firms found that so far, AI adoption increases workers\u2019 productivity without having any impact on employment. Research from late last year, meanwhile, found that more AI-exposed industries experienced either the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1x_ZIbUkepI-f15BwnrbbmOx5GA3cXnj5\/view\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">same<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5375017\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> employment than less-exposed industries\u2014not job losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re one of the 90 million Americans who works a white-collar job, then in the past few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-513682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}