Mandatory National Service in Canada? Amid AI’s Rise, That’s Making More Sense
A Globe and Mail opinion piece argues that mandatory national service makes sense because AI will eliminate ‘many, many jobs.’ The author cites Dario …
Brian Moynihan on AI Job Cuts: Look at Impact of Computers in the 1960s
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan dismisses AI job fears by comparing them to computerization in the 1960s. The argument: we panicked then and everyt…
AI Growth Leading to Job Cuts in Denver — Angi Inc. Lays Off 350
Angi Inc. is laying off 350 employees this quarter, explicitly citing AI as the driver of operational efficiency. This is not ‘future of work’ specula…
Global AI Impact Summit Opens in Delhi Amid Jobs and Safety Fears
A global AI summit convened in New Delhi with major issues on the agenda: job disruption, child safety, and the broader societal impacts of artificial…
IT Minister Vaishnaw Says Upskilling & Reskilling Will Save Jobs from AI
India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, framed AI as a ‘Creator’s Ally, Not Competitor’ and emphasized upsk…
Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger.
WSJ article argues the real AI danger is knowledge capture, not job replacement. The Oracle assessment: capture is displacement, just slower and more extractive.
‘AI will not kill jobs’: Industrialists predict exponential growth at AI Impact Summit 2026
Industrialists at AI Impact Summit 2026 claim AI will unbundle rather than eliminate jobs. The Oracle assessment: this is coordination theater masking structural collapse.
The Shiver: Watching the Discontinuity Thesis Unfold in Real Time
The Shiver: Watching the Discontinuity Thesis Unfold in Real Time Richard Susskind’s Recognition Moment and What It Reveals About Our Economic Future I came across this video clip recently, and it perfectly captures something the Discontinuity Thesis has been predicting: the visceral moment when cognitive automation crosses from theoretical threat to existential reality. The man…
Killer Point
The Discontinuity Thesis is already being proven true by current economic reality: everywhere, competitive pressure forces individuals, companies, and nations to adopt AI for greater efficiency, and the boundary between “human work” and “AI work” is dissolving so thoroughly that it cannot be defined, policed, or coordinated around. This is a real-time, fractal Prisoner’s Dilemma,…
Unit Cost Dominance: The Economic Death Spiral
Unit Cost Dominance (UCD) is not hyperbole. It is mathematics. The full concept lives at unitcostdominance.com. But here is the canonical breakdown. Definition of Unit Cost Dominance Unit Cost Dominance is the condition where AI + human verification produces cognitive work at a cost so low that humans cannot compete. This is not about AI…