What jobs, exactly, is so-called "artificial intelligence" supposed to revolutionize, and for whose benefit?

The answers to those rarely-asked questions have become increasingly clear in recent months, as the looming threat of AI automation appears to be taking a concrete toll on the workforce. The bombshell July jobs report has finally confirmed what many US workers have been feeling for months: it's almost impossible to find meaningful employment anymore.

With just 73,000 nonfarm jobs added to the economy in July and a pitiful 33,000 over May and June, it seems the early days of the AI era aren't all they're cracked up to be — at least not for us, the worker bees keeping the whole hive from coming apart at the seams. As Time Magazine's Philip Elliott recently wrote, workers in the rich

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