If mass AI job loss is a choice and not destiny, who actually gets to make it?
Over 200 economists and Nobel laureates just warned that AI-driven job displacement is a policy choice with a short window to act — but who holds the levers to steer toward complementing workers instead of replacing them, and what happens if no one agrees on a plan before the fork locks in?
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This week’s Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts episode (July 16, 2026) dug into the 88-word ‘We Must Act Now’ letter — signed by Stiglitz, Acemoglu, Brynjolfsson, Autor, Eric Schmidt, and even the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic. What’s striking is the consensus on urgency paired with a total absence of a plan: same technology, two opposite endings, and they insist which one we get is still undecided. Through the Unscarcity lens, that ‘undecided’ is the whole game — the choice between elite capture, peaceful transition, or chaos gets made by default if we don’t build the guardrails while the window’s open. The organizers warn the transformation could be ’larger than the Industrial Revolution’ but far faster, meaning the time to steer is measured in years, not generations. Give the full episode a listen and tell us: who do you trust to hold the wheel?
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