{"id":14173,"date":"2026-05-11T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:41:09","slug":"there-will-be-no-ai-jobpocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/there-will-be-no-ai-jobpocalypse\/14173\/","title":{"rendered":"There will be no AI jobpocalypse."},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published on\u00a0Deeplearning.AI, May 8, 2026. The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI \u2014 like any other technology \u2014 does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of large-scale unemployment is irresponsible and damaging. Let\u2019s put a stop to it. I\u2019ve expressed skepticism about the jobpocalypse in previous letters. I\u2019m glad to see that the popular press is now pushing back on this narrative. The image features some recent headlines. Software engineering is the sector most affected by AI tools, as coding agents race ahead. Yet hiring of software engineers remains strong!\u00a0So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/there-will-be-no-ai-jobpocalypse\/14173\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on\u00a0Deeplearning.AI, May 8, 2026. The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI \u2014 like any other technology \u2014 does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of large-scale unemployment is irresponsible and damaging. Let\u2019s put a stop to it. I\u2019ve expressed skepticism about the jobpocalypse in previous letters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14175,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions\/14175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}