Source: Axios
The emergence of power users, doubters, and resisters reflects a structural split in how different cohorts experience economic opportunity and risk from the same technology. This fragmentation has immediate labor market consequences: power users are accumulating skills and capital gains, resisters are losing bargaining power in their sectors, and doubters are caught in costly paralysis, unable to commit to either upskilling or exit strategies. The tension sits between the top tier who controls AI tools and everyone else watching their expertise depreciate in real time.