In Robot-Proof, neuroscientist Vivienne Ming argues AI will “deprofessionalize” law, medicine and finance, reducing high-skill roles to assembly-line tasks. She calls for a shift from knowledge transmission to building “meta-learning” traits—cognitive flexibility, empathy, resilience and divergent thinking—through project-based education and capacity-driven hiring. Drawing on proprietary HR data, she proposes US-centric reforms and data trusts but offers little on collaborating with frontline educators and clinicians.

Oracle is laying off thousands of employees as it invests heavily in artificial intelligence and builds new data centers. Workers in the U.S. and India have reported receiving termination emails, with some analysts predicting up to 30,000 job cuts.