TED Talks Daily I'll probably lose my job to AI. Here's why that's OK | Megan J. McArdle
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Jun 27, 2025 AI Snips
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Megan's AI Job Anxiety
- Megan J. McArdle shares her anxiety about AI potentially displacing her writing career.
- Despite loving her job, she worries about the future as AI writing improves rapidly.
Luddites Were Skilled Workers
- The Luddites were skilled artisans fighting mechanization that threatened their jobs, not mere technophobes.
- Progress brings benefits but also real, sometimes painful, costs to people’s lives and jobs.
Progress Is an Unearned Inheritance
- Progress requires bearing hardships today to pass a better world to future generations.
- Halting innovation to protect present jobs steals opportunities and quality of life from descendants.