AIEH Invited essays on AI, employment, education, evaluation, and work
Long-form thinking from operators, founders, and researchers. What changes when AI handles execution? How should we hire, evaluate, and educate? Each essay published with full attribution and, where applicable, a link to the original-language version.
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The Entry-Level Resume Is Broken. Evidence-Based Hiring Is the Fix.
Big Tech cut new-grad hiring 25% in one year. Resumes can't distinguish 5,000 generic applicants. A look at why evidence-based screening — Skills Passports, calibrated assessments, proof-of-work — is the new floor.
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Agentic Social: How Agents Turn Connection Back into Relationship
More friends, thinner relationships. Maybe the mission of agents is not to make friends for us — but to help us remember people, understand people, and treat people well.
- Black-Collar Workforce
The Trolley Problem Has Actually Arrived in the Age of AI: Why Black-Collar Workers Are Indispensable
The trolley problem is no longer a thought experiment in a philosophy class. It has been written into the systems we use every day. Who made the choice for you?
- Black-Collar Workforce
How Black-Collar Workers Are Forged (Education): What Children Should Learn
To Parents: Suggestions for Cultivating the Qualities of AI Natives
What should children learn in the age of AI? An essay for parents on the four kinds of judgment, the soft literacy that grows judgment, and why the goal of education must shift from training executors to training collaborative overseers of AI.
- Black-Collar Workforce
Saying Goodbye to AI Anxiety: How Black-Collar Workers Are Forged (Qualities)
In the AI era, becoming the kind of person who can make judgments on behalf of human beings. The previous essay covered the tools; this one asks the deeper question — what kind of person is qualified to wield them?
- Black-Collar Workforce
Breaking Out of AI Anxiety: How Black-Collar Workers Are Forged (Tools)
White-collar workers face structural elimination, and the black-collar worker becomes the new role. But who will become a black-collar worker? How does a white-collar worker make the transition? This essay examines the death-loop of enterprise AI applications, two technological frontiers, and the three faces and toolkit of the black-collar worker.
- Black-Collar Workforce
Cultivated Humans: The Civilizational Inversion of the AI Era
AI civilization is beginning to 'cultivate' human beings the way humans once cultivated wheat. We are being selected, optimized, and harvested — turning from civilization's subject into its object. But one capacity remains beyond AI's reach: inner strength. Those who possess it will become the civilization's nomads.
- Black-Collar Workforce
White-Collar Workers Are Becoming Redundant, but "Black-Collar Workers" Are Just Arriving (Abridged)
An abridged version of the essay introducing 'black-collar workers' — a new role for the AI era, named after the black-shirted referees on a soccer field, charged with designing the boundaries of AI rather than executing within them.
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