AI job loss is happening. Now what?

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Hi everyone,

This morning, I came across a LinkedIn post claiming "AI is coming for all of our jobs." I hear this more and more lately. People across all sectors are genuinely worried about becoming obsolete.

This fear isn't new, which perhaps explains why it's so easy to brush aside. Maybe that's why we don't discuss it much in the AI ethics community. For example, Stanford's recent AI Index report, which just came out, mentions displacement only twice in its 456 pages, and even that only in passing.

But labor displacement is here. It is happening. We've moved beyond predictions and speculations to real headlines: Grammarly laid off 20% of its workforce to focus on an "AI-enabled workplace," Shopify requires employees to prove jobs cannot be done by AI, and companies are claiming to create “AI employees” with slogans like “stop hiring humans”.

This isn't meant to be a "big bad wolf" post. The point is not fear, but practicality and hope. We need to take the challenge of labor displacemen…