From disruption to reinvention: How knowledge workers can thrive after AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As AI advances toward expanded capabilities, knowledge workers are confronting not just job loss, but the deeper question of what makes them matter. Fortune published the story of a 42-year-old software engineer with a computer science degree whose purpose has unraveled. He had earned a six-figure salary writing code for a tech company. Then came the wave of generative AI. His job vanished, not by outsourcing or a corporate restructuring, but by algorithms that could code faster and cheaper. He subsequently applied for more than 800 software coding and engineering management jobs, but with no success. He now delivers for DoorDash and lives in a trailer, wondering what happened to a career he once believed was future proof. This is not a story about economic misfortune alone. It is about identity collapse. For decades, knowledge work has been the engine of s ... Read full article.