Since ChatGPT’s paradigm-shifting debut in November 2022, writers and thinkers of all stripes have touted the virtues and lamented the dangers of A.I. Such dangers include A.I.’s disastrous effect on education and on creativity, its potential to enable ordinary citizens to make weapons of mass destruction or to flood the world with deepfakes, its supposed tendency to reinforce stereotypes, its willingness to steal our intellectual property or its capacity to kill us off entirely.
Yet one danger of A.I. looms above all others — and we’re completely unprepared for it: the coming wave of A.I.-driven unemployment likely to hit within the next few years.
