Published July 3, 2026 by Virginia Roberts, this piece pushes back on Zeynep Tufekci’s recent New York Times column, arguing she is insufficiently alarmed about generative AI’s effect on employment. Roberts contends that even short of wholesale job elimination, AI adoption is already degrading working conditions and destabilizing labor markets, and urges more attention to AI’s broader societal fallout beyond narrow debates over full job replacement.
