Your job is definitely at risk due to artificial intelligence — but not for the reasons you think
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Author(s): Jim Stanford
Date: December 13, 2025
Many people worry that artificial intelligence threatens their future job security, a concern largely misplaced.
Most AI applications have dubious productive merit. Few algorithms can do tasks actually performed by humans. Many AI users are students cheating on their homework, or bored commuters creating silly videos.
And like previous technologies, AI facilitates new functions and capacities that will likely offset whatever jobs are eliminated by the technology. Without doubt, right now AI is currently creating more jobs than it is destroying.
However, there’s another way AI may indeed threaten your job — and it’s got nothing to do with an algorithm replacing you. Since ChatGPT launched three years ago, an unprecedented financial bubble has inflated in AI-related investments, concentrated in the U.S.
Most AI applications have dubious productive merit. Few algorithms can do tasks actually performed by humans. Many AI users are students cheating on their homework, or bored commuters creating silly videos.
And like previous technologies, AI facilitates new functions and capacities that will likely offset whatever jobs are eliminated by the technology. Without doubt, right now AI is currently creating more jobs than it is destroying.
However, there’s another way AI may indeed threaten your job — and it’s got nothing to do with an algorithm replacing you. Since ChatGPT launched three years ago, an unprecedented financial bubble has inflated in AI-related investments, concentrated in the U.S.