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    AI is a net US job creator, says a user citing The Economist

    A user citing The Economist credits AI with more than 1 million new US positions, from data center construction to AI engineering, enough to offset back-office layoffs.

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    A post summarizing The Economist says AI is generating more than 1 million new US jobs, enough to offset back-office layoffs, but also notes disruption in routine admin and customer service roles. Another user takes that claim as support for an AI jobs boom rather than an apocalypse, arguing that disappearing jobs are easier to foresee than the new roles that will replace them.

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    26 Sources

    @TheEconomistOur analysis suggests that AI has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. We explain how the technology has created a hiring boom https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/09/04/the-jobs-apocalypse-is-postponed-an-ai-jobs-boom-is-here?taid=6a9bda18ae1ff00001c209e7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
    @marcportermageeThe Economist: “Some of the occupations once believed to be most vulnerable to AI seem to be benefiting from this effect … Despite dire warnings of imminent lay-offs, professional services are projected to keep growing rapidly”
    @Dan_Jeffries1For a decade I've said AI will create a jobs boom, not an apocalypse. And here it is, in the numbers. The Green Revolution strikes again. It's always easy to see what will change and disappear and almost impossible to see what will replace it, as the Universe continues its endless process of evolution at all levels. Try to explain a web developer to an 18th century farmer and it's impossible because it's built on the back of dozens of unforeseeable inventions that the farmer can't possibly imagine. But the fear people persist. Making podcasts. Paying influencers to foment fear and rage. Writing books. Pushing videos at you. Reality will not change their mind or dark hearts or their seething internal hate. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Population Bomb style fear people are persistent, full of rage, unable to change their mind and cling desperately to their existing belief structures in the face overwhelming proof of the opposite as if it's a virtue. It's a mental disease. And if pessimism is left unchecked it can create a societal level mental disease as fear and rage take hold and create a storm that crashes the economy, gets people killed and brings the worst and most evil people to power to enact policies that lead to ruin. If you can't evolve your thinking over time as new information comes in, you're the definition of a fantatic, someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. I've changed mine over the years. Thirty years ago I thought the jobs apocalypse was coming. I've been thinking about this a lot longer than most people on Earth. When I was a young, inexperienced artist I wrote a short story called In the Cracks of the Machine where labor robots unleashed an unprecedented wave of unemployment as companies adopted them all at once. It's sparked a vicious populist backlash and a wave of collective insanity. I got the populism and insanity right. These two phenomenons are always untethered from reality and need no actual grounding to foment rage and create political storms. Reality will not change people's minds. They'll just dig in further and get more furious. Delusion is remarkably resilient in the face of reality. But have no fear. Let go of hatred, fear, worry and doubt. Change and adaptation is eternal and forever. Evolution is eternal. The stack of new frontiers and problems to solve is infinite with Star Trek level computers you just talk to. It's time to boldly go where no one has gone before.
    @sarthakghRT @marcportermagee: The Economist: “Some of the occupations once believed to be most vulnerable to AI seem to be benefiting from this effe…
    @ClementDelangueRT @rdomenechv: The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here According to @TheEconomist, AI is actually proving to be a net…
    @levieThe AI jobs prediction so far is playing out the opposite of what many thought. The reason this is happening is because AI is bringing automation to areas that don’t have finite demand characteristics. AI allows companies to do far more than they could before, but agents still require human operators and oversight to generate value from them. And not only has AI not replaced many of the types of jobs that theoretically would have been most affected by AI - engineers or lawyers - but AI is also creating or growing entire categories of jobs across the economy. Cybersecurity, FDEs, agent operators, engineers in non-software domains, and tons of job categories are going to explode. It’s not clear if or when this trend will reverse because we keep discovering all new areas of demand that AI is going to open up.
    @ernietedeschiGood piece from @johncassidy. My take: the aggregate data are inconsistent with doom scenarios, & the tentative evidence of hiring slowdowns in narrower segments have problems being linked to AI **specifically.** But it's also early: effects may not emerge until the next downturn
    @ziv_ravidWho can believe that AI will not eliminate all jobs and that the labor market is more dynamic? @alexolegimas , when are we doing an updated episode?
    @NoahpinionHere are four charts. Companies that use AI tend to hire more humans. Companies are more likely to say AI has created new tasks for humans to do than to say AI has replaced humans. The whole economy still has plenty of jobs overall.
    @saranormousRT @rdomenechv: The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here According to @TheEconomist, AI is actually proving to be a net…

    26 Sources

    @TheEconomistOur analysis suggests that AI has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. We explain how the technology has created a hiring boom https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/09/04/the-jobs-apocalypse-is-postponed-an-ai-jobs-boom-is-here?taid=6a9bda18ae1ff00001c209e7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
    @marcportermageeThe Economist: “Some of the occupations once believed to be most vulnerable to AI seem to be benefiting from this effect … Despite dire warnings of imminent lay-offs, professional services are projected to keep growing rapidly”
    @Dan_Jeffries1For a decade I've said AI will create a jobs boom, not an apocalypse. And here it is, in the numbers. The Green Revolution strikes again. It's always easy to see what will change and disappear and almost impossible to see what will replace it, as the Universe continues its endless process of evolution at all levels. Try to explain a web developer to an 18th century farmer and it's impossible because it's built on the back of dozens of unforeseeable inventions that the farmer can't possibly imagine. But the fear people persist. Making podcasts. Paying influencers to foment fear and rage. Writing books. Pushing videos at you. Reality will not change their mind or dark hearts or their seething internal hate. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Population Bomb style fear people are persistent, full of rage, unable to change their mind and cling desperately to their existing belief structures in the face overwhelming proof of the opposite as if it's a virtue. It's a mental disease. And if pessimism is left unchecked it can create a societal level mental disease as fear and rage take hold and create a storm that crashes the economy, gets people killed and brings the worst and most evil people to power to enact policies that lead to ruin. If you can't evolve your thinking over time as new information comes in, you're the definition of a fantatic, someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. I've changed mine over the years. Thirty years ago I thought the jobs apocalypse was coming. I've been thinking about this a lot longer than most people on Earth. When I was a young, inexperienced artist I wrote a short story called In the Cracks of the Machine where labor robots unleashed an unprecedented wave of unemployment as companies adopted them all at once. It's sparked a vicious populist backlash and a wave of collective insanity. I got the populism and insanity right. These two phenomenons are always untethered from reality and need no actual grounding to foment rage and create political storms. Reality will not change people's minds. They'll just dig in further and get more furious. Delusion is remarkably resilient in the face of reality. But have no fear. Let go of hatred, fear, worry and doubt. Change and adaptation is eternal and forever. Evolution is eternal. The stack of new frontiers and problems to solve is infinite with Star Trek level computers you just talk to. It's time to boldly go where no one has gone before.
    @sarthakghRT @marcportermagee: The Economist: “Some of the occupations once believed to be most vulnerable to AI seem to be benefiting from this effe…
    @ClementDelangueRT @rdomenechv: The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here According to @TheEconomist, AI is actually proving to be a net…
    @levieThe AI jobs prediction so far is playing out the opposite of what many thought. The reason this is happening is because AI is bringing automation to areas that don’t have finite demand characteristics. AI allows companies to do far more than they could before, but agents still require human operators and oversight to generate value from them. And not only has AI not replaced many of the types of jobs that theoretically would have been most affected by AI - engineers or lawyers - but AI is also creating or growing entire categories of jobs across the economy. Cybersecurity, FDEs, agent operators, engineers in non-software domains, and tons of job categories are going to explode. It’s not clear if or when this trend will reverse because we keep discovering all new areas of demand that AI is going to open up.
    @ernietedeschiGood piece from @johncassidy. My take: the aggregate data are inconsistent with doom scenarios, & the tentative evidence of hiring slowdowns in narrower segments have problems being linked to AI **specifically.** But it's also early: effects may not emerge until the next downturn
    @ziv_ravidWho can believe that AI will not eliminate all jobs and that the labor market is more dynamic? @alexolegimas , when are we doing an updated episode?
    @NoahpinionHere are four charts. Companies that use AI tend to hire more humans. Companies are more likely to say AI has created new tasks for humans to do than to say AI has replaced humans. The whole economy still has plenty of jobs overall.
    @saranormousRT @rdomenechv: The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here According to @TheEconomist, AI is actually proving to be a net…