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What JFK can teach us about AI job loss

A playbook from 1962 may be our last defense against looming inequality for the American worker

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Jeremy Ney
May 06, 2026
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John F. Kennedy in The New Yorker | The New Yorker
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In the early 1960s, John F. Kennedy faced a technological anxiety remarkably similar to our own. Back then, the “threat” wasn’t Large Language Models, but the “Cybernation Revolution”—…

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