The AI-human workforce crossover is happening now, not "coming."

When a company lays off 40% of its workforce and its CEO explicitly states those roles were "made redundant by AI tools," we are not anticipating a transition. We are living it. The 30,000 Oracle employees, the 4,000 Block employees — these are not numbers on a forecast graph. They are people who had jobs on Tuesday and didn't on Wednesday. This exceeds the format because we have no frame for labour-market phase transitions at this speed. Previous technological displacements (agriculture to ind ...