AI Will Take Your Job, But What Happens NEXT Is Worse [VIDEO]

The Intelligence Curse, as detailed in the report by Luke Drago and Rudolf Laine and vividly dramatized in the YouTube video Documenting AGI, warns of a catastrophic economic shift once artificial general intelligence (AGI) fully emerges.

AI agents begin by replacing entry-level and junior workers at dramatically lower costs, compelling companies to automate aggressively to remain competitive, leading to massive layoffs starting from the bottom of organizational pyramids and rapidly ascending to managers and executives.

Unemployment surges past Great Depression levels—reaching 25% or higher—while stock markets soar on AI-driven productivity gains.

High-profile figures like Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledge an “AI hiring apocalypse” with near-zero new job creation. Schools decline as AI entertainment dominates attention, elite education becomes inaccessible, and social mobility collapses, creating a society where humans lose economic relevance entirely.

The future AI video presents a chilling, research-based scenario of how artificial intelligence could devastate the global workforce.

Drawing heavily from the report “The Intelligence Curse” by Luke Drago and Rudolf Laine, the video outlines a step-by-step progression where AI agents first replace junior employees at a fraction of the cost (about 1/5th), forcing competitive companies to lay off staff to stay profitable.

CEOs initially resist but succumb to board pressure as productivity soars and human workers become bottlenecks. Within a short time, over 90% of entry-level roles vanish, unemployment climbs to 12% and then 25%—surpassing Great Depression levels—while stock markets boom from AI-driven gains. The narrative cites Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledging an “AI hiring apocalypse” with near-zero job creation, and highlights how AI rapidly advances to outperform humans in complex tasks, eventually replacing managers and even executives, including the emergence of flawless AI CEOs.

As the crisis deepens, societal fallout intensifies: public schools crumble as AI entertainment dominates, elite universities become inaccessible to most, and upward mobility disappears. Efforts to implement Universal Basic Income (UBI) fail due to fierce political opposition, with the U.S. administration’s AISAR dismissing it as a “utopian fantasy” and vetoing related bills. The video frames this as an “intelligence curse,” analogous to resource curses in oil-rich nations like Venezuela or Nigeria, but driven by AI’s unique ability to replace all human labor without creating new jobs—concentrating immense wealth and power in the hands of AI companies and elites. It warns that general AI, capable of exponential self-improvement toward superintelligence, poses an existential threat if not monitored for autonomy and high intelligence levels. The overall message is a stark call to action: without intervention, AI will render humans economically powerless, leading to widespread poverty, inequality, and potential societal collapse, far worse than mere job loss.