The End of the Knowledge Worker: What the AI-2027 Forecast Reveals About the Coming Psychological Crisis at Work
In reflection on the AI-2027.com report Informed by the writing of Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean
We are now witnessing, not merely predicting, the dismantling of one of the most entrenched illusions of modern life: that work, particularly white-collar work, is the highest expression of human value.
The newly released AI-2027 report, a meticulously constructed scenario forecast authored by leading thinkers in rationalist and alignment communities, outlines with disturbing clarity the acceleration of artificial general intelligence (AGI) from novelty to necessity, and ultimately, to dominance.
Much of the public discourse will likely fixate on geopolitics, job loss, and the threat of super intelligence. But we would do well to stop and examine something more subtle, yet no less consequential: what happens to the inner life of the individual when the need for their intelligence is removed?
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