AI Didn’t Replace Workers—It Replaced the Need to Know Who’s Competent
How Artificial Intelligence Destroyed Labor Market Price Discovery and Made Capability Invisible While Everyone Still Has Jobs The unemployment rate hasn’t spiked. Hiring continues. Salaries remain stable. Workers keep working. AI didn’t replace the workforce. It replaced something more fundamental: the ability to observe competence. When everyone can produce senior-level output regardless of actual capability—when … AI Didn’t Replace Workers—It Replaced the Need to Know Who’s Competent