

Summer reading 2026: everyone's talking about the machine — these twelve books are about us
Everyone is shouting about the machine. Sam Altman promises heaven, the doom-mongers hell, and on LinkedIn you trip over oracles who know exactly what your job will look like in five years. As the Dutch columnist Sander Schimmelpenninck recently put it in de Volkskrant, it is maddening how easily the likes of Musk throw sand in the public's eyes. The loudest voice usually has the most to sell. Turn that noise off, and the genuinely interesting question remains. Not: what will
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AI isn’t taking jobs. Employers are pulling up the ladder.
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson analysed the payroll records of millions of American workers. His conclusion: since the breakthrough of generative AI in late 2022, employment for 22- to 25-year-olds in AI-exposed occupations has fallen by around 13 per cent. Junior software developers, accountants, customer service staff. And the experienced professionals in the same occupations? Stable. Or even growing. Read that sentence again. AI isn’t replacing people. AI is replacin
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