{"id":260927,"date":"2026-06-01T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/why-we-shouldnt-panic-about-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:05:23","slug":"why-we-shouldnt-panic-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/why-we-shouldnt-panic-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Shouldn\u2019t Panic About AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why We Shouldn\u2019t Panic About AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/artificial-intelligence-jobs-technology<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-01 08:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.city-journal.org<\/a><\/p>\n

It sometimes seems that today\u2019s commentators cannot view developments through anything other than a binary lens\u2014each new event or technology will either bring peace and bounty or catastrophe. The debate over artificial intelligence often exemplifies this tendency. On one side, AI seems poised to bring an explosion in productivity, increased leisure, and more freedom from life\u2019s less pleasant tasks. On the other, AI heralds a bleak future of mass unemployment and a dispirited and restive population, in which a few benefit greatly,\u00a0while others live purposeless lives on a guaranteed government income.<\/p>\n

The skeptics paint a dark picture. In a recent article\u00a0entitled \u201cSomething Big is Happening,\u201d AI startup founder Matt Shumer declared that the technology is \u201ccoming for\u201d anyone whose job \u201chappens on a screen,\u201d including coders, accountants, writers, journalists, and even medical doctors. Even some AI developers\u2014among them Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk\u2014see the inevitability of what might be called a jobs apocalypse and accordingly advocate for a universal basic income to care for the soon-to-be unemployable millions.<\/p>\n

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Of course, AI and robotics will displace many workers, as have all technological revolutions in the past. Maybe the\u00a0coders of whom Shumer writes will need to apply their keen intelligence and fine talents to other fields. Perhaps superior AI-powered robots will supersede miners, oil field workers, and others in dangerous and dirty jobs as well. The list of potentially obsolete occupations will certainly grow longer as AI develops and will likely include administrative assistants, receptionists, financial analysts, travel agents, junior-level graphic designers, and others.<\/p>\n

But in this case, as in all past innovation waves, the new technologies\u00a0should also create new business and employment opportunities….<\/p>\n

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