Visitors interact with a robot from Unitree Robotics during the sixth China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) in Haikou, South China's Hainan province, April 14, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua]
As companies pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence while cutting jobs, fears of human replacement are mounting. Oracle is reportedly preparing another round of layoffs ahead of Sept 1, according to Business Insider. But the 2026 Stanford AI Index shows that AI is reshaping the labor market without yet causing mass job displacement.
The promise of AI is extraordinary: new frontiers in science, solutions to global challenges and a future where human creativity flourishes. That is the dream.
But the reality we are witnessing could not be further from it.
The rapid deployment of AI today is not aligned with human well-being. It is driven by an ideology — one that treats human beings as obstacles to be overcome. Slogans like "move fast and break things" are rooted in a form of technological determinism that devalues human agency.
