BBT #13 Snippet | AI Isn't Just Taking Jobs — It's Eliminating the Reason to Create New Ones

Black Box Theory Podcast · Apr 19, 2026 · 3m · transcript

Every previous wave of automation came with a consolation: yes, it displaced workers, but it also created new categories of jobs that didn't exist before. The assembly line eliminated certain roles and created others. The internet killed some industries and built entirely new ones. The argument for AI follows the same script — but there's a problem with it this time. The jobs AI is targeting aren't on a factory floor. They're in the corporate office. And the people building AI are explicitly saying the goal is to keep improving it until it can do most of what white-collar workers do. That's…