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AI and the End of Upward Mobility

Original: The End Of Upward Mobility – AI is coming for the meritocracy

A new essay in Noema Magazine argues that artificial intelligence threatens to dismantle the meritocracy that long powered upward mobility in the United States. The piece contends that as AI takes over the cognitive, entry-level and professional work traditionally used by ambitious people to climb the ladder, the main route to advancement for talented outsiders could close. Readers are actively debating whether AI will entrench elite advantage rather than democratise opportunity.

Why now: The argument lands amid growing anxiety that AI will eliminate the white-collar career paths that made social mobility possible.

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