AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable

‘The opportunity to stand up for our AI-threatened livelihoods is now,’ writes Van Badham Photograph: John M Lund Photography Inc/Getty Images

Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid advance of AI in the workplace will create a “permanent underclass” of everyone not already hitched to the AI train.

The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will “reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027. Once it develops capacity to innovate, AI superintelligence will supersede even a need for its own programmers … and then wipe out the jobs done by everyone else.