August 2, 2025

AI and jobs

 Axios -  AI is supposed to displace millions of workers in the coming years. But when your toilet won't flush at 2 a.m., you're not going to call ChatGPT, Axios' Ben Berkowitz writes.

 The reshaping of the American economy promises to offer a kind of revenge for the blue-collar laborer, as white-collar workers become largely dispensable, but the need for skilled trades only grows.

This story was inspired by an Axios list this week of the 10 jobs that are most- and least-threatened by AI, based on Microsoft research. (Our Top 10 ... Full list.) 

The irony: Who's going to run the wiring for all these AI data centers? Or put the roof on the building. It's become a Trump administration economic talking point: Blue-collar wages are rising faster now than at the start of any other administration going back to Nixon.

There's already a labor shortage in many of these blue-collar professions, one that AI will, ironically, only make worse.  

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