AI is displacing workers in customer service and data roles first

The article identifies where AI adoption is eliminating jobs today—customer support, data entry, and content moderation—rather than speculating about future labor collapse. This separates real economic disruption affecting millions of workers in outsourced and entry-level roles from hype-cycle predictions, allowing policymakers and workers to prepare for concrete sectoral shifts. AI won't distribute evenly across the economy; it will hollow out specific labor categories first, creating immediate hardship for vulnerable workers while other sectors remain largely untouched.