The Treaty of Detroit for AI

The nightmares have evolved. Once, workers feared the factory floor going silent as machines hummed to life. Today, the anxiety haunts conference rooms and home offices, where knowledge workers refresh job boards compulsively and wonder if their expertise will survive the next quarterly earnings call. The statistics paint a stark picture: around 37 per cent of employees now worry about automation threatening their jobs, a marked increase from just a decade ago. This isn't unfounded paranoia. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently predicted that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. Meanwhile, 14 per cent of all workers have already been displaced by AI, though public perception inflates this dramatically. Those not yet affected believe 29 per cent have lost their jobs to automation, whilst those who have experienced displacement estimate the rate at 47 per cent. The gap between perception and reality reveals something crucial: the fear itself has