The most reassuring argument about AI and jobs quietly explains why Gen Z can’t get one

Why Your Best Employees Are Terrified to Take a Sick Day Right Now

A shaky job market and the rise of AI are driving an uncomfortable workplace trend: workers are slogging through illness just to prove they’re indispensable.

Cory Doctorow on the Right — and Wrong — Way to Criticize AI

Worrying about whether AI can do your job is a blind alley, Cory Doctorow argues. The real danger is AI’s bubble: a speculative fantasy built on convincing bosses to replace workers with systems that can’t actually do what their salesmen promise.

One in 10 Gen Zers want their boss to be replaced by AI—they’re already being polite to ChatGPT just in case

Amid AI job-loss fears, Gen Z has one role they hope gets replaced: their boss. And 69 are already being polite to ChatGPT, just in case.

When AI at the Workplace Is As Dangerous As DEI

When AI at the Workplace Is As Dangerous As DEI

Career Shock: Who Wins When AI Takes Over the Office

Discover which careers will thrive and survive AI disruption: creative pros, healthcare workers, technologists, leaders, skilled artisans, educators, and human connectors remain indispensable.

I’ve held hundreds of job interviews. We shouldn’t trust AI with it

At their best, using AI to screen candidates can save time for the business. At their worst, they add complications to the already emotional toll of job hunting.

Does AI mark an inflection point for civilization? | The Excerpt

In “The God Test,” Robert Wright argues that the real challenge of AI isn’t just building smarter machines—it’s deciding whether we can evolve, morally and politically, fast enough to develop an AI that’s mutually beneficial. As these systems begin to mirror—and amplify—human intelligence, agency, and even our flaws, the stakes become existential. Humans have shown that we can evolve. The question is: Will we? Author Robert Wright joins The Excerpt to talk about his new book. Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/

When asked if AI will make humans unnecessary, Bill Gates said, "we will decide". Who is we [Scary]

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We Must Address the Growing Rage Against the A.I. Machine

Humanity is inching along a precarious tightrope. Our world is in the midst of deciding how the artificial intelligence revolution will unfold and what limits should be drawn. Too much caution could waste A.I.’s promise of faster economic growth, greater scientific discovery and more prosperity. Too little caution could unleash labor-market chaos and social disorder. []

Half of Gen Z feel guilty using AI at work. Employers now rank it above a degree

Half of young workers feel guilty when they use AI to do their jobs. Yet the same skills are fast becoming something their employers demand. That is the bind facing Gen Z at work, according to a new global survey from the employment platform Employment Hero. The company calls it “the AI paradox.” In the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Hype Or Hope? AI Run Leading To More Stock Scrutiny

Hype Or Hope? AI Run Leading To More Stock Scrutiny

A better AI future for workers won’t build itself, says journalist Sarah O’Connor

A better AI future for workers won’t build itself, says journalist Sarah O’Connor

Why AI could be a financial ‘sludge’ buster

Regulators want to use the technology in their bid to cut red tape

Should we fear an AI bubble bust?

Should we fear an AI bubble bust?

Nobel economist warns AI doomsday job fears could become self-fulfilling prophecy

Robert Shiller, a Nobel laureate in economics, says fears about AI severely impacting the job market are warranted but that they should be tempered.

General : Use AI As Capacity Multiplier, Not Cost Cutting Tool  - Sim

PETALING JAYA, July 11 (Bernama) -- Businesses should harness artificial intelligence (AI) as a capacity multiplier while continuing to invest in human talent, instead of treating the technology solely as a cost-cutting tool, Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development Minister Steven Sim said.

AI doomerism is misplaced. Here’s what it will take to pop the bubble

Cory Doctorow argues AI dominance is not inevitable. How we fight back matters

The AI Playbook Telling Landlords How To Cut Jobs And Manage The Message

While executives try to calm growing public fears about potential job losses due to artificial intelligence, EliseAI is pinpointing how multifamily operators can quell employee concerns while simultaneously introducing automation capable of eventually...

A Potentially Terrible AI Economic Dilemma

Austerity for the non-AI economy?

Academic weighs in: Should we fear an AI bubble bust?

Academic weighs in: Should we fear an AI bubble bust?

The Lump of Labor Fallacy in the Age of AI

New technology doesn't just replace labor. It creates new forms.

Generative AI is a "plague," says Dragon Age vet David Gaider: "It's not ready for prime time. There's just a lot of executives who really, really want it to be"

Generative AI is a "plague," says Dragon Age vet David Gaider: "It's not ready for prime time. There's just a lot of executives who really, really want it to be"

An AI proxy war could reshape Congress — before Congress reshapes AI

The massive spending and heated rhetoric in midterm races reflect the AI industry's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like.

“It’s Not Humanly Possible”: Worker Snaps After Unhinged Boss Spirals Into “AI Psychosis” and Blames Staff for Chatbot’s Delusional Targets

This boss' team is paying for his over-reliance on AI — both with their morale and their sanity. The post “It’s Not Humanly Possible”: Worker Snaps After Unhinged Boss Spirals Into “AI Psychosis” and Blames Staff for Chatbot’s Delusional Targets appeared first on TwistedSifter.

The AI Superfans Companies Count On to Convert Skeptics...

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Against Slop

“The whole field of AI alignment—ensuring that machine intelligence can peacefully coexist with humanity—grew out of the pervasive anxiety that we might create monsters.” This is, Meghan O’Gieblyn argues in our June 25, 2026, issue, a distinctly parental anxiety, a primordial kind of maternal metaphor that appears over and over again in [] The post Against Slop first appeared on Attack the System.

UN’s Guterres warns AI outpacing oversight, urges global rules to protect children

(1st UPDATE) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says, 'Innovation needs guardrails. If AI is to be powerful, it must be governed'

Industry Leaders Say AI Will Boost, Not Replace, Global Services Jobs

Workers in the global services industry are being assured that artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to enhance productivity rather than replace jobs. Speaking during a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think []

Is the AI Boom Losing Steam?

"The AI NARRATIVE alone will STRUGGLE." Chief Market Strategist at Equiti Group Nour Eldeen Al-Hammoury says markets are becoming more selective on AI.

MWC Shanghai 2026: Gulf operators look to U6GHz as the next step in 5G Advanced evolution

As AI dominates conversations across the telecoms industry, operators are increasingly facing a parallel challenge: ensuring that mobile networks can evolve fast enough to support the next generation of intelligent applications

‘RAISE US’ Is a Rare Positive Development in AI Transformation

‘RAISE US’ Is a Rare Positive Development in AI Transformation jdimaggio@upcea.edu Wed, 07/08/2026 - 03:00 AM Good news on the potential impact of AI on the workforce. Byline(s) Ray Schroeder

Everyone’s terrified of AI taking jobs. I can’t hire fast enough

For the past year, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been predicting a white-collar crisis driven by artificial intelligence. Well, where is it? As the CEO of a fast-growing tech company, I see what AI is actually doing inside businesses every day, and it doesn’t look like a crisis. It looks like a revolution in productivity, []

How artificial intelligence got better at building itself

The latest generation of AI models are such competent coders, engineers and (soon) scientists that many worry they may be among the last ever made by humans.

Dr Brand: The real AI failure? It's not the technology — It's the thinking

Dr Brand: The real AI failure? It's not the technology — It's the thinking

Don’t expect the rising tide of AI to lift all boats

The brave new world of artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be a mixed and divisive blessing for governments – not least those of key Asian countries – as well as for financial markets. The AI revolution points to higher economic growth for economies linked to the tech supply chain, with others being left behind. It also signals the potential for financial crises. Balancing these risks will be tricky. The relative optimism, displayed in a recent report from the International Monetary Fund...

AI engineer vs. forward deployed engineer: Which role delivers the most business value?

A prominent AI expert says that forward-deployed engineers are limited, and that the broader emerging category of AI engineers has the greatest career potential. Is he right?

AI isn't killing entry-level jobs. Experienced workers are taking them

Young job seekers are blaming their vanishing prospects on AI. Older employees are quietly absorbing their roles instead