AI and Your Work: What Is Actually Happening
Most AI news is written for people who enjoy AI news. This page is for people who have to work alongside it.
Below: what the evidence actually shows about jobs, the argument against the panic, and the career moves that have kept working through every previous version of this.
We update it as the data changes, and we say when something is contested rather than settled.
What the evidence shows
The studies, the layoffs, and what the numbers actually say.
- Lowe's CEO Warns: AI Threatens Corporate Jobs
- AI impact: Entry-level jobs decline, Stanford study reveals
- AI's Impact on Job Losses Exceeds Company Claims
- AI to Replace Jobs: Report Highlights Key Shifts
- AI Job Impact: Creation, Displacement, and the Skills Shift
- AI Job Impact: Cushy Desks at Risk, Manual Labor Safe
- DeepMind CEO: AI Job Disruption Coming, Prep Now
- IBM Cuts 8,000 HR Jobs Amid AI Transformation
- Amazon Cuts 14,000 Jobs Amid AI Shift
- Amazon Cuts Jobs: AI, Robots Replace Workers by 2033
- Chegg Cuts Staff, CEO Replaced Amid AI Disruption
- AI 'Godfather' Warns of Joblessness, Praises Plumbing
- India's Job Market Growth Slows to 2.8% in H1 FY26
- Private Sector Job Growth Plummets to 37,000 in May
The counter-argument
The case that this is not simply a jobs massacre.
- AI: A Job Creator, Not Just a Job Killer
- AI: A Gift for College Learning, Not a Curse
- AI Abstinence: Is Avoiding AI Even Possible Now?
- AI Economy: Adapt or Face Disruption
- Women in AI: Why Inclusion Drives Innovation
- Altman: AI to Revolutionize Jobs, Robotics by 2027
- Trump's Policies: AI Investment, Trade Wars, and Job Impacts
Career moves that survive
What has kept working through every previous version of this.
- Future-Proof Your Career: How to Embrace Artificial Intelligence
- Future-Proof Your Career: Leaning into Artificial Intelligence
- AI Job Shift: Navigating the Changing Workplace
- AI Revolutionizes Hiring: Efficiency and Ethics Emerge
- Google's Compiler Podcast: Deep Dive into Tech Careers
- Sundar Pichai's Early Struggle: Family's Sacrifice for Education
- Pichai's Mantra: Balancing Pressure with a Student Mindset
- Scarlett Johansson's Career Advice: Know Your Worth
- Jared Leto’s Secret to Mastering Multiple Careers
- Sam Altman's Billion-Dollar Fortune: Beyond OpenAI's AI
Prompts and plays. Practical, task-level guides: how to AI-proof the job you already have, what to learn first, and the prompts that remove the worst hour of your week. Published as they are written.
The part you control
You cannot forecast the labour market. You can control whether your work is specific, verifiable and hard to approximate, and you can be the person in the room who already knows how to use the tools.
That is a learnable set of moves, not a personality trait.
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