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Apocalypse No
Scott Galloway argues the AI job apocalypse is a narrative engineered by hyperscalers to attract capital, not an evidence-based forecast — historical data and Jevon's paradox suggest automation expands rather than eliminates occupations.
May 08, 2026 · essay · Scott Galloway, Prof G Media
Topics
- ai-safety
- platform-strategy
- wealth-inequality
- labor-market
- automation-history
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- AI safety
AI safety covers the technical and behavioral risks of deployed AI systems, from sycophantic belief distortion to misaligned model behavior, and the tooling built to detect and constrain those failures at inference time.
- Platform strategy
How a product positions itself as infrastructure others build on top of, whether by exposing tool interfaces for AI agents, offering end-to-end capability suites to lock out point solutions, or outlasting competitors whose ideas get recycled by later entrants.
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