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🌊 HELIOX: WHERE EVIDENCE MEETS EMPATHY 🇨🇦
You go to sleep Sunday. Job safe. Wake up Monday — new model drops, wave crashes, 100% automated by lunchtime.
That fear has a name. The data suggests it might be built on a myth.
A 57-minute deep dive into what the evidence actually shows about AI and the global workforce.
🧵 Thread below. #FutureOfWork #AIDisruption #SciencePodcast
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Stanford/ADP data: 25 million workers. A 16% targeted drop in junior employment in AI-exposed fields since late 2022.

Not a general hiring freeze. Surgical. Controlled for COVID correction, remote work, offshoring.

The entry-level knowledge job is structurally disappearing. The senior one? Growing slightly in some sectors.

The asymmetry is the story. #LaborMarket #AIAndWork

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MIT Future Tech tested AI on thousands of real-world tasks — not sterile lab benchmarks, but scenarios evaluated by actual human professionals.
Finding: No crashing wave. A rising tide.

Broad, uniform, predictable. Failure rate halves every ~3 years. By 2029: 80–95% of text-based tasks within reach.

Not a tsunami. A tide you can plan for. #MITResearch #RisingTide

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The one cognitive act AI structurally cannot replicate: bisociation.

When two incompatible matrices of thought collide and produce something genuinely new.
Not optimization. Rupture. The Newton moment. The Einstein moment.

The last mile the tide can't cover — and the foundation of a durable economy. #Innovation #Bisociation #TuringTrap

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🌊 The Water Is Already at Your Knees, and what you do next might define the next century of human work

Podcast Episode · Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬ · April 13 · 58m

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🌊 The Water Is Already at Your Knees, and what you do next might define the next century of human work - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

📖 Read: It is a civilizational invitation to redesign what we train human beings to do.The water is coming. We have a few years — probably more than the doomers say, probably less than the optimists hope — to learn how to swim in it. Not to r...

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The tide is rising. What are you building on high ground?
This is Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 — independent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, global conversations about things that matter.

Breathe easy. We go deep and lightly surface the big ideas.

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