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As companies pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence while cutting jobs, fears of human replacement are mounting. Oracle is reportedly preparing another round of layoffs ahead of Sept 1, according to Business Insider. But the 2026 Stanford AI Index shows that AI is reshaping the labor market without yet causing mass job displacement.

随着各大企业一边向人工智能砸入数十亿美元，一边削减岗位，人们对人类被取代的担忧日益加剧。据《商业内幕》报道，甲骨文公司正计划在9月1日前开启新一轮裁员。但斯坦福大学发布的《2026年人工智能指数报告》显示，人工智能正在重塑劳动力市场，却尚未造成大规模岗位流失。

The promise of AI is extraordinary: new frontiers in science, solutions to global challenges and a future where human creativity flourishes. That is the dream.

人工智能的发展前景无比诱人：开拓科学全新疆域、破解全球各类难题，迎来人类创造力蓬勃发展的未来。这是理想图景。

But the reality we are witnessing could not be further from it.

但我们眼下所见的现实，却与这份理想相去甚远。

The rapid deployment of AI today is not aligned with human wellbeing. It is driven by an ideology — one that treats human beings as obstacles to be overcome. Slogans like "move fast and break things" are rooted in a form of technological determinism that devalues human agency.

如今人工智能的快速落地应用，并未以人类福祉为导向。其背后是一套意识形态：把人类视作需要被攻克的阻碍。“快速行动，破除桎梏”这类口号，根植于一种技术决定论，该理论贬低人的主观能动性。

At its core lies a dangerous myth — that machines will soon surpass us in every cognitive domain, rendering human expertise obsolete.

这一切的核心是一个危险的谬论：机器很快会在所有认知领域超越人类，让人类的专业技能变得毫无价值。

This myth is not innocent. It is already being used to justify mass layoffs of software engineers, writers, translators and analysts.

这个谬论并非无伤大雅。它已经被拿来为软件工程师、作家、翻译以及分析师的大规模裁员做合理化辩解。

Tech executives frame these cuts as inevitable progress. But a cleareyed look at the facts tells a different story.