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June 2025

I asked ChatGPT what work it’s leaving for me. Its answers weren’t encouraging
AI taketh but also giveth. Well, giveth seemingly plausible career advice, at least
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Nigel Bowen
What if there’s a Rough Singularity?
When a labour market changes, so does the economy and society it’s attached to
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Nigel Bowen
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Are luxury beliefs affordable during a white-collar bloodbath?
Will the PMC’s xenophilia disappear with its jobs?
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Nigel Bowen
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Some metrics for judging how hyped AI is
If AI is as much of a game-changer as many now claim, its real-world effects should soon be readily apparent
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Nigel Bowen
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May 2025

How do the politics of AI-driven mass automation play out?
After half a century of winner-take-all neoliberalism, can anybody even imagine a kinder, gentler society?
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Nigel Bowen
5
Is a PMC-prole alliance feasible? And what happens if it’s not?
With the scrapheap looming, can the PMC belatedly pull its head in and forge an alliance with the class it’s spent half a century throwing under the…
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Nigel Bowen
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RIP, the Professional-Managerial Class (1976 – 2026)
It’s the old story. First success, then hubris and, inevitably, nemesis
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Nigel Bowen
48
AI’s existential slap
People are starting to wake up to the imminent disruption of their careers, lives and societies. If you’re one of them, you may find news from the…
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Nigel Bowen
6
Is this the last of the Seinfeld elections?
Like all other Anglosphere nations, Australia urgently requires root-and-branch reform. Unfortunately, neither of the major parties is offering it this…
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Nigel Bowen
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April 2025

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