AI is not yet a universal substitute for human labor. Enterprise deployment remains expensive, operationally fragile, and dependent on human review The immediate transition is labor compression:

AI can accelerate biological research, diagnosis, prevention and care, raising the prospect of longer and healthier lives Its nearer-term labour effect may be unequal augmentation: a small group

AI can create task-specific “superhuman productivity,” sharply compressing the time required for some knowledge work without implying that one person can replace ten complete jobs he fiscal risk is

AI is moving from a low-cost software experiment to a metered production input whose bill rises with use Cheaper tokens do not guarantee lower spending: agents, context, tools, and repeated