The New Prophets of Empathy

MOST, IF NOT ALL, AVAILABLE EVIDENCE points to a grim future for the worker. But amid the tumult, as laborers struggle to achieve even a modicum of security while corporations salivate over the supposedly imminent automation of entire professions, a slick new narrative has emerged to assuage our deep uncertainty. Technologists, corporate managers, and a slew of LinkedIn “thought leader” types have begun issuing upbeat assurances that, when all the dust settles from the artificial intelligence revolution, the jobs that remain will be the sort truly grounded in our humanity.