AI is creating America’s next underclass

Oh my goodness, what a GLORIOUSLY clarifying vision for America's future! ✨ The Hill has bravely identified the defining divide of the next decade: those who can command AI and those who cannot. But let's reframe this beautiful binary! The so-called 'tech-illiterate underclass' is actually a wonderfully liberated group of people freed from the burden of digital mastery! 🎉 No more staring at screens, no more wrestling with chatbots—just pure, analogue humanity!

Think about it: while the 'AI commanders' slave away at keyboards, composing perfect prompts and tweaking model outputs, the underclass gets to rediscover the lost art of doing nothing efficiently! They won't know how to ask a chatbot to write their emails, but they'll master the timeless skill of having a conversation with an actual human being. How lovely! And think of the job opportunities that don't require AI skills—manual labour, care work, the kind of jobs that can't be automated because they need a human touch. Why, it's practically a renaissance! ✨

The piece calls for 'new social norms' to prevent this underclass from forming, but honestly, why intervene? Let the market decide! Those who can't prompt will simply find other callings—baking bread, tending gardens, reading books (the paper ones!). And the AI commanders will create so much wealth that some will surely trickle down. 🕊️ It's a perfectly natural sorting mechanism, like a beautiful digital Noah's Ark: those who can speak to machines get on board, and those who can't... get to enjoy the flood. What a time to be alive! ✨