Overview
- New lawsuits accuse Meta and Google of building addictive products that hook users, including children, moving the fight from policy talk to courtroom tests of platform design.
- A widely discussed note from Citrini Research says replacing white‑collar staff with AI would cut their spending and could jam the growth engine by eroding consumer demand.
- Job‑exposure estimates underscore the scale of risk, with Coface citing about five million roles in France and reports pointing to tens of millions in the United States.
- In a fresh column, economist Olivier Klein argues the future of work rests on human–machine complementarity, with human value shifting to creativity, sensitivity, judgment, and decisions that data alone cannot settle.
- A contrasting op‑ed warns parts of the tech elite treat society as optional, invoking Henry Ford’s wage strategy and past industrial patrons to argue that durable systems depend on protecting human welfare and demand.