The scientist who helped create AI says it's only 'a matter of time' before every single job is wiped out

[Omaha Steve]

https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/yoshua-bengio-ai-only-a-matter-of-time-before-every-single-job-is-wiped-out-even-gen-z-trade-plumbing/

By Orianna Rosa Royle
Associate Editor, Success
December 19, 2025, 9:15 AM ET

You’re not imagining it: The AI job squeeze isn’t some future apocalypse, it’s already quietly underway.

Professor Yoshua Bengio spent four decades building the technology that is now coming for your job. He is a computer science professor at the Université de Montréal, a Turing Award winner, and one of the most-cited scientists in the world on Google Scholar—and now he’s turned his back on his life’s work to warn that your job is probably already under threat.

Desk jobs, or as Bengio called them, “cognitive jobs, the jobs that you can do behind a keyboard,” will be the first casualties of automation.

“It’s just a matter of time,” the AI pioneer stressed on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast.

FULL story at link above.


Yoshua Bengio helped create the technology that is now coming for your job—and he thinks anyone who works on a laptop or computer is already under threat. Twenty47studio/Getty Images

[IA8IT]

1. A.I. is the DEVIL!!!

[Walleye]

2. I believe it when I see AI go out in the storm and fix downed powerlines

[thought crime]

11. The AI will dispatch low level humans to fix downed powerlines.

[MichMan]

12. That isn't what the headline says

It says "every single job" will be wiped out. All of them

That means no president, no congress, no state & local government, no doctors, nurses, veterinarians or dentists, no police or fire, no plumbers, no military. All AI apparently, including those who write AI, and those who design and build automation.

What a steaming pile of crap.

[jmbar2]

3. Do they discuss any solutions to mass worldwide unemployment?

Who will buy all the stuff? What kind of world would that be? Like the plague times of the Middle Ages?

[anciano]

4. Historically, new technologies have always sidelined

some existing occupations, but new skills and career opportunities have invariably replaced the older ones. AI is simply another tool that will, just like the internet has, give us the potential for increasing our productivity and enhancing our creativity going forward.

[Doodley]

5. If AI take away all the jobs, how will the population have the money to buy the products and services

produced by AI and therefore keep the corporations in business? It won't. We would have to transform into a democratic socialist nation where the government does a lot more and increases taxes on corporations. I'm all for that! Humanity will suddenly have a lot of free time for learning, leisure and love! We are currently moving in the wrong direction for an AI revolution.

[multigraincracker]

6. Tax those jobs to cover those replaced.

Tax profits, not people.

[sboatcar]

7. Its also only a matter of time before weaponized AI decides humanity is a bad idea....

[MiHale]

8. Read this book for a glimpse of maybe our future....

Robopocalypse is a 2011 science fiction novel by Daniel H. Wilson about a global robot uprising led by a powerful, childlike artificial intelligence named Archos, which takes control of all networked machines to turn them against humanity. The story is told through a collection of documents, including journal entries, security footage, and recorded conversations, detailing the "Zero Hour" event and the subsequent war for survival, following various human survivors as they fight back against the machine-led apocalypse.

[MichMan]

9. "before every single job is wiped out"

Really? Not one job left in the entire world ?

[dickthegrouch]

10. AI's inability to discern a lack of integrity will be its downfall.

Once All-encompassing Iniquity tries to take hold, the age-old mantra of "Garbage in, Garbage Out" will be our savior.
Massive at-scale deliberate pollution of the sources will be necessary.
OUR AI's had better be in training for that!