27/02/2026
With AI, we are quickly training our own replacement at our jobs. If the people who currently build the systems can be replaced by the systems, then no white-collar profession should feel secure. Later this year, AI could replace many support roles. In 2027, it will consume administrative and clerical job roles with more virtual assistants. By 2028, it will be performing serious professional tasks at scale. By the early 2030s, much of white-collar America may no longer be necessary to the current economic structure.
First, it will replace what we currently dismiss as “menial” cognitive work such as call centers, customer service, scheduling, and transcription. That phase is already underway. Then it will move into clerical roles, basic accounting, paralegal research, routine journalism, marketing copy, workflow automation, process engineering, and compliance work. After that, no profession is spared, not even software engineering itself.
This brings me to the scariest part that very few are realizing: The United States has no plan for mass unemployment. None. No labor transition strategy. No reskilling conveyor belt capable of operating at the speed of the AI being trained by all of us. No serious public conversations about income decoupled from employment. I just see lots of vague chatter about “innovation,” paired with the familiar promise that new jobs will somehow appear, like they always have in this country. 🙄
A society where tens of millions of people are unemployable is not a sign of free-market success, it is but a powder keg. You can’t preach personal responsibility to a population for whom responsibility has been rendered economically irrelevant. You can’t defend social order while ignoring the conditions that make order possible. Stop training your own replacement as an excuse to be more efficient, productive, save money, boost profits, and have more leisure time in the present. We are ruining our own future and dooming the younger generations. Shame on us!
