For months, the dominant AI doom-narrative has focused on job losses. The fear of automation replacing workers, companies restructuring around AI and fears that entire professions could become obsolete have felt very real.
Now, two developments this month complicate that picture, not necessarily by denying the disruption, but by showing what some organizations think comes next.
In June, Anthropic launched a fellowship program that pays participants $85,000 a year to help nonprofits adopt AI tools. Around the same time, new data revealed how aggressively China has been reshaping higher education, cutting thousands of degree programs while expanding courses in artificial intelligence, robotics and semiconductor technology.
