Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat that could impact all life on Earth. Our best experts can’t agree on its trajectory or even its distance from our planet, but knowledge of its presence is enough to throw society into a fervor. There’s no way to know: it could hit with such force that it lays waste to all but a chosen few, or it might miss us entirely, as gravitational forces alter the conditions of a flight path not yet written in the stars. Then there are the masses of unemployed — maybe they’re stranded astronauts, in this tortured metaphor — for whom worrying about the asteroid with two feet on solid ground would be a luxury. For these spacefarers, the asteroid takes a back seat to the more pressing issue of returning home. Yet the asteroid is already making that increasingly impossible, its gravitational force …