UK AI Job Fear Meets a Stagnant Wage Economy

The institutional move is that AI displacement is being treated as a revenue problem, not only a labor-market shock. Once the OBR models a world where technology replaces workers without lifting GDP, the old reassurance that productivity eventually compensates for disruption loses its policy value. The UK debate now has a concrete accounting frame: if wages are the tax base, labor-saving AI also becomes a public-finance risk.