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8 June 2026 · AI
One story says AI grows the economy and everyone reallocates. Another says mass redundancy is weeks away. Both are too tidy. What actually decides it, job by job — and who gets left holding nothing.
8 June 2026 · AGI
Demis Hassabis says AGI arrives around 2030 — the start of "a new human era." But his most interesting line wasn't about the machines. It was about what stays valuable in us: taste, original thinking, and connection.
6 June 2026 · AI
"AI took the jobs" has become the default story of this decade. A new working paper argues it's the wrong story — and that we've made this exact mistake once before, in 1798.
4 June 2026 · AI
The headlines say the AI jobs apocalypse was oversold. They're right — and it changes nothing. Why the deepest disruption is still ahead, and what holds when your job title stops meaning anything.