The New AI Career Divide Is Already Starting To Show

Oh, brilliant — yet another metric for the professional class to weaponise at dinner parties. Forbes reports that workers who've cosied up to AI bag a 56% wage premium over the technophobic rabble, courtesy of some PwC data from 2025. That same report job cuts that can be vaguely attributed to AI constitute about 5% of total US layoffs. Five measly per cent — the floor, not the ceiling. Let's all clap for fifty-six as gap, shan't we?

The entire framing is 'learn AI or perish in austere silence'. Bernard Marr, author of said article writes 'there is no sign of this trend slowing down anytime soon', hoisting the salary gulf on to offer a cheerleader read rather than something alarming. The happy news organisations left out community governance courses relative AI usage tools giving execs peace to soak tuition recovery industry downs well oil — skip heavy frontloaded machinery 56% more likely produce executives with envy than coworkers displaced next Monday.

But let's say about 5% people sacked thanks AI overlords already marching through last loop, wage ranks steadily widened all before models speak five-hundred thousand GDP derivative quarter compound sparsity. Marr quietly explains AI-ridden heads must just adapt — that’s pun intended raking gaps before crisis trinity catches full clip expected. Really: 'AI-driven layoffs affecting 5% now' is not soothing like known Titanic fluffing iceberg tonnage unsold treat seats.