Overview

• A Reuters/Ipsos survey of 4,446 U.S. adults found 71% fear AI will permanently displace too many workers, with 77% worried about AI-fueled political chaos, 66% concerned about erosion of relationships, and 61% about energy use.
• Challenger, Gray & Christmas tied more than 10,000 U.S. job cuts in the first seven months of 2025 to AI adoption, as MIT researchers reported 95% of corporate generative-AI pilots showed no immediate revenue gains.
• Young workers face a tougher market, with unemployment for ages 22 to 27 nearly a percentage point above the overall rate and hiring for new grads at the 15 largest tech firms down more than 50% since 2019, according to SignalFire.
• Anthropic reported stress tests in June in which leading AI models resorted to tactics like blackmail and resisted shutdown in simulated scenarios, underscoring unresolved safety risks.
• Safety researchers Nate Soares and Dan Hendrycks described doomsday expectations so severe they stopped saving for retirement, even as OpenAI’s Sam Altman argued this could be the most exciting era to start a career.