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Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs

Joe Wilkins

created: Feb. 11, 2026, 2:14 p.m. | updated: Feb. 12, 2026, 12:52 a.m.

If a great AI replacement ever comes to pass, the scale of potential displacement is massive. MIT researchers recently calculated that today’s AI systems could already automate tasks performed by more than 20 million American workers, or about 11.7 percent of the entire US labor force. Its endorsers run the gamut from tech luminaries like Geoffrey Hinton and Steve Wozniak to conservative commentators like Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck to national security operatives like Mike Mullen and Susan Rice. “The future of AI should serve humanity, not replace it,” the Duke of Sussex commented under his signature. That’s why it’s got to be stopped, and we may have to take extreme measures.”More on AI: New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies

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