Researchers See Opportunity. Everyone Else Sees a Pink Slip.

The institutional advantage in this conversation belongs entirely to the people who publish papers about it. Researchers and lab communicators arrive with frameworks — 'augmentation', 'transition periods', 'complementarity' — that get absorbed into policy language, earnings calls, and press releases. The workers those frameworks are supposed to describe have no equivalent institutional amplifier. What they have is a feed full of documented role eliminations and a growing refusal to engage with tools they associate with their own displacement .