This article continues the discussion I started in my previous piece, The Consequences of the Mass Adoption of AI and Robotics for the Average Person, where I looked at how AI and automation could change the economic value of human labor. Here, I want to focus on the next question: if large numbers of people…
If we set aside the promotional optimism of technology companies and apocalyptic fantasies, I see the main risk of the near future not in the idea that “AI will destroy humanity,” but in the fact that it may very quickly change the economic value of the average person.
A Chinese court has issued a ruling that could become an important precedent for the global labor and technology markets. The court found unlawful the dismissal of an employee that the company had justified by the implementation of artificial intelligence systems and automation. In effect, this is one of the first high-profile cases in which…
In late August, 2025, 150 Atlassian employees opened their laptops expecting a normal day at work. What they got instead was a pre-recorded video message from co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes. Calm, professional, but utterly detached, the video informed them their jobs were no longer needed. Within minutes, their laptops went dark, system access revoked.
Klarna’s bold leap into AI-driven customer service has hit a human wall. Less than a year after replacing 700 staff with AI, the company is now backtracking, admitting that automation alone couldn’t deliver the quality customers expected.
Developers built the AI that’s now replacing them — poetic, isn’t it? Explore how coders automated themselves out of jobs, who will survive the shift, and why LaSoft still bets on humans.
