A corollary of the truism “don’t sweat the small stuff” is, by implication, “do sweat the big stuff”, but it can be hard to pick which big stuff to sweat. For example: since the 1970s, as the world has worried about inflation and rolling geopolitics, the big stuff we should have been sweating more urgently was the climate crisis. I thought in immediate terms of my own household income, and beyond that, of how the job market might look 10 years from now when my children graduate. As relayed in the piece, in 2014, Elon Musk tweeted: “We need to be super careful with AI. I type into ChatGPT my concern about entering the permanent underclass, to which it replies: “That’s a heavy question, and it sounds like you’re worried about your long-term prospects.

Source: The Guardian April 08, 2026 15:08 UTC