{"id":212010,"date":"2026-02-10T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/ai-could-trigger-a-global-jobs-market-collapse-by-2027-if-left-unchecked-ex-google-ethicist-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:35:14","slug":"ai-could-trigger-a-global-jobs-market-collapse-by-2027-if-left-unchecked-ex-google-ethicist-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/ai-could-trigger-a-global-jobs-market-collapse-by-2027-if-left-unchecked-ex-google-ethicist-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could trigger a global jobs market collapse by 2027 if left unchecked, ex-Google ethicist warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI could trigger a global jobs market collapse by 2027 if left unchecked, ex-Google ethicist warns<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/02\/10\/ai-taking-jobs-report-tristan-harris-google-ethicist-agi-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-10 12:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Tech companies are hurdling toward a goal of artificial general intelligence, or AGI\u2014technology that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have predicted the advent of human-level artificial intelligence could arrive as early as this year. Despite optimism about the technology among business leaders, AI experts say it could have catastrophic impacts if left uncontrolled.<\/p>\n

Ex-Google insider and AI expert Tristan Harris joined The Diary of a CEO podcast with host Steven Bartlett last November to discuss the pursuit of AGI, which he acknowledges most industry leaders believe could arrive by as soon as 2027. Harris said the mad dash to achieve human-level AI could create harmful incentives for unchecked growth, ultimately deteriorating safety, security, and economic well-being.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a kind of competitive logic that self-reinforces itself,\u201d Harris said. \u201cIt forces everyone to be incentivized to take the most shortcuts, to care the least about safety or security, to not care about how many jobs get disrupted, to not care about the well-being of regular people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, AI companies are operating with minimal regulation. On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump rolled back Biden-era AI regulations aimed at ensuring safe and secure implementation that supported workers facing job disruptions. And in December, Trump signed an executive order preempting regulation of the technology, preventing a patchwork of state laws that the president said could \u201cstymie innovation.\u201d Harris argued unfettered AI growth is not in the average American\u2019s best interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe default path is not in [the people\u2019s] interest,\u201d he said. \u201cThe default path is companies racing to release the most powerful, inscrutable, uncontrollable technology we\u2019ve ever invented with the maximum incentive to cut corners on safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

A greater labor threat than immigration and NAFTA<\/h2>\n

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