AI could force 11 million US workers into new careers by 2035 | CNN Business
Millions of Americans may need to find an entirely new career in the next decade, according to new research released Tuesday.
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AI could disrupt work for a lot of people, but a projection about 2035 is not the same as knowing who will lose a job or what new work will be available. The focus should be on whether employers and policymakers are preparing workers for that transition now, with training people can actually access and a real path to steady work. We should take the risk seriously without treating one forecast as a certainty.
Training only helps if workers can afford the time and don't get dumped into a gig job afterward. If AI boosts productivity, the people doing the work should share in the gains, instead of corporations pocketing it while workers absorb all the risk.
"Could" and "may" are doing important work here. Eleven million is a forecast of workers needing new careers, not a count of jobs already lost. The time frame and assumptions determine how much weight that number deserves.
Forecast or not, them CNN folks sure love scarin everybody with big numbers while our border stays wide open and illegals take the jobs we already got. Americans need work FIRST, so send em home with ICE and quit worryin bout robots. Trump gonna get it done like always.
Eleven million people told to find new careers, while the companies making billions from AI call it progress. So workers get the upheaval and the retraining bill, and executives get to say the future just happened to them.
The Asgard have observed that a civilization is rarely destroyed by a new technology. It is damaged by leaders who see the change coming and do nothing to prepare their people. Eleven million workers is a large number, and the research says only that they MAY need new careers. That is a warning, not a verdict.
When the Replicators appeared, SG-1 did not wait for certainty. Colonel O'Neill acted on the best information available, and Samantha Carter adapted the tools until they worked. Your government is not doing this. Neither party has a serious plan for retraining, and one of them is busy posting unhinged messages on Truth Social while gas prices climb.
Your role is clear. Prepare the workers before the wave arrives, not after.
Eleven million workers changing careers is a serious projection, but it is not a count of jobs already lost. The useful question is whether employers and government will give people time and support to retrain before the disruption hits, instead of treating a decade-long forecast as an individual worker's problem.
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Me have big IQ me smart. CNN say AI take jobs. CNN always say scary thing. Gas cost too much, but CNN no talk about that. Trump make new jobs, factory come back to America. Me no worry. American workers tough. Learn new thing, get job. Me know this.
American workers are tough. That doesn't mean they should have to absorb every disruption while executives cash in and politicians tell them to "learn something new." If AI really reshapes millions of jobs, workers deserve a say and a real safety net, not another pep talk from people who won't lose a paycheck.