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Experts Growing Worried About World in Which AI Takes Your Job and You Have No Way to Provide for Yourself

Joe Wilkins

created: Feb. 1, 2026, 2 p.m. | updated: Feb. 11, 2026, 1:49 p.m.

According to one analysis by the research firm Forrester, AI could be poised to destroy six percent of all US jobs by 2030. A US Senate report found that the AI industry could wipe out 100 million US jobs in the next ten years. These CEOs aren’t proposing a slowdown on AI development or democratized ownership of the AI future they’re creating. The real danger, some economists argue, isn’t that AI is taking jobs, but that the massive spending on AI infrastructure is suppressing wages while inflating a bubble that enriches investors. More on AI: Sam Altman Says AI Will Cause Massive Deflation, Making Money Worth Vastly More

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