Contrary to the job loss narrative, AI will increase demand for knowledge workers. By drastically lowering the cost of their output (like code or medical scans), AI expands the number of use cases and total market demand, creating more jobs for humans to prompt, interpret, and validate the AI's work.

Drawing on Frédéric Bastiat's "seen and unseen" principle, AI doomerism is a classic economic fallacy. It focuses on tangible job displacement ("the seen") while completely missing the new industries, roles, and creative potential that technology inevitably unlocks ("the unseen"), a pattern repeated throughout history.

AI makes tasks cheaper and faster. This increased efficiency doesn't reduce the need for workers; instead, it increases the demand for their work, as companies can now afford to do more of it. This creates a positive feedback loop that may lead to more hiring, not less.

The narrative of AI destroying jobs misses a key point: AI allows companies to 'hire software for a dollar' for tasks that were never economical to assign to humans. This will unlock new services and expand the economy, creating demand in areas that previously didn't exist.

AI's impact on labor will likely follow a deceptive curve: an initial boost in productivity as it augments human workers, followed by a crash as it masters their domains and replaces them entirely. This creates a false sense of security, delaying necessary policy responses.

The threat isn't that AI will take jobs, but that people who fail to adopt AI tools will be replaced by those who do. The distinction is crucial: technology doesn't replace people, but people become replaceable when they can no longer prove their value in an AI-augmented organization.

The panic-inducing Citrini paper, which caused a market sell-off, assumes a static economy where AI only destroys jobs. It completely ignores historical precedents where new efficiencies unlock unforeseen demand and create entirely new industries, a concept similar to the Jevons paradox.

Fears of AI-driven mass unemployment overlook basic capitalism. Any company that fires staff to boost margins will be out-competed by a rival that uses AI to empower its workforce for greater output and market share, ensuring AI augments jobs rather than eliminates them.

The narrative "AI will take your job" is misleading. The reality is companies will replace employees who refuse to adopt AI with those who can leverage it for massive productivity gains. Non-adoption is a career-limiting choice.