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Joel Kotkin: When the AI revolution is over, trades may be the only jobs left
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The biggest long-range danger looming over the remaining liberal democracies does not come from U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin or the nutty mullahs in Iran now being pummelled. Instead, it comes from the seemingly inexorable force of technology that increasingly threatens not just to aid humanity, but replace it.
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No matter what the political class proposes, artificial intelligence is poised to dominate our lives. Two-fifths of young Americans — the group most likely to be impacted by AI in the workforce — are willing to turn government over to it, according to a 2025 survey for the Heartland Institute. That’s a scary thought since, in war game scenarios, AIs tend to opt for nuclear war. Good thing AI is not running the Iran war!
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