Despite the constant barrage of headlines that have reported tens of thousands of corporate, AI-driven layoffs over the past several months, Big Tech and its allies want people to believe that AI isn’t coming for their jobs. This perspective completely disregards reality. There won’t be a sudden labor market collapse, but rather, a slow, steady erosion.

The main fallacy that skeptics of AI’s negative impact on the workforce fall victim to is that they believe that AI should have disrupted far more jobs than it already has if there were truly an “apocalypse” coming. However, economic disruption rarely arrives with a bang.