America’s AI Workforce Reckoning: A $4 Trillion Revolution With No Playbook for the Workers Left Behind
The most transformative technology of the 21st century is rewriting the rules of employment across every sector of the American economy — and neither Washington nor corporate America has articulated a coherent plan for the millions of workers whose livelihoods hang in the balance. Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic abstraction debated in Silicon Valley boardrooms; it is actively reshaping job descriptions, eliminating entire categories of work, and creating new roles that didn’t exist five years ago. The question that looms over the American labor market is not whether AI will change work, but whether the country is prepared for the speed and scale of that change. A sweeping analysis published by The Atlantic paints a picture of an economy in the early stages of a profound structural shift — one that carries echoes of the Industrial Revolution but unfolds at digital speed. The piece argues that the United States lacks a comprehensive strategy for managing the labo...