若 AI 取代人类工作，他们失去的将不只是薪水

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If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay

Work has value beyond the income it provides

Image 17: Illustration of a worker at a desk getting pulled by circuit board lines.

Illustration: Paul Blow

Oct 22nd 2026|4 min read

S ometimes you embark on a project and realise that you have misjudged things. To your horror you realise it’s too late to turn back. So you plough on and hope to avoid catastrophe. But enough about Mark Zuckerberg drinking Guinness.Other artificial-intelligence bigwigs harbour deep misgivings of another kind—about the potential effects of the technology they are developing. On October 18th Anthropic, an AI lab, said it plans to put 5% of its shares into a public-benefit fund that might end up distributing cash to people affected by economic upheaval. A day later Elon Musk pledged to give one share in SpaceX to every child in America.