The cope of “replaced by AI”

I saw this tweet going viral: Replaced by AI. https://t.co/bQ0paORIyC — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) October 12, 2026 There is a recurring theme of people predicting and hoping “such-and-such professions” will be replaced or obsoleted by AI. Common examples include: –White-collar jobs –Mathematicians –Writers –elite degrees/higher-ed Each of these were addressed in earlier posts, in which so far I have been correct. Some people outright lie to push their “AI obsolescence” narrative. For example, a recent viral article by Annie Lowrey in The Atlantic, “Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer,” goes so far as to claim that “…AI is threatening to make thinking work obsolete,” and that “…hard data are showing that generative artificial intelligence really is smashing the lower rungs on the white-collar career ladder.” I don’t know what data she is referring to. Why do people keep lying to their readers when anything can be fact-checked in seconds with AI? I consulted Claude, and the…