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Employment is in chaos. Tariffs are battering global supply chains. The tech companies behind large language models (LLMs) say their products will soon automate away huge swaths of jobs, replacing occupations that have existed for decades (like programming) or millennia (writing, child care) with unprecedented new jobs overseeing automated work — jobs whose skill needs no one can predict. If the generative AI geese do lay these golden eggs for investors, we may face unemployment on a scale to rival the industrial revolution. If they don’t, some already fear a tech-stock crash to rival 1929. Either way, the promises of LLMs are already
