AI isn't just reshaping work. It's taking lives

AI isn’t just reshaping work. It’s taking lives, and we’re not ready.

We talk about AI and automation like it’s inevitable.
Like it’s “progress.”
Like everyone will “reskill” or “transition” and things will just balance out.

But I’m seeing signs that the transition isn’t humane - that the human cost of progress is being ignored.

And the safety nets? Practically nonexistent.

Behind every “streamlined workflow” or “automated role” is often a real person. Someone that is now struggling to find meaning, security, or identity in a world that quietly decided their function was replaceable.

We celebrate efficiency, but we rarely talk about grief. About fear. About what it feels like to be displaced by something you can’t outcompete.

It’s convenient to frame AI as just another industrial revolution.

But this one feels different, because it’s not just replacing labor, it’s reshaping value itself.

And for those building the tools, designing the systems, automating the flows… it’s easy to turn a blind eye and be oblivious.

But take a good look?
We can easily see who gets replaced.
We see what gets erased.

Which means we have a responsibility to ask the hard questions:
How do we transition ethically? Who gets left behind? What happens when value detaches from human contribution?

I don’t have the answers, at least not yet - and maybe those answers belong to brighter minds in more leveraged positions.

But I know this: sitting still isn’t one of them.

In this new era, you either step out of the system, or risk being consumed by it.

Let’s stop pretending this era is about “upskilling.” It’s about sovereignty, and survival.

We need to choose to build systems that serve people, not erase them.

AI has the potential for enormous good. But we have to be morally and structurally ready to direct it that way.

And right now as a collective human society?
I don’t think we’re there yet.
AI arrived too early.