The headline will read "Artificial intelligence devours knowledge class workers." Here in Iowa, John Deere has laid off 2,400 workers in the past year, most of which were of the knowledge class. Anyone whose job involves moving language or logic around inside of a computer: mid-tier specialists, operations staff, designers, customer service agents, administrators, analysts, and project managers.

That is the target vector of employees who will be the first to go as they are terminated as a cost reduction measure. It’s the hyper acceleration of large language models-generative AI that has eliminated these human jobs forever. The same dance is happening all across the country in every segment and sector of the economy and it is only going to happen faster as LLM-GAI doubles its abilities eve

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