{"id":22727,"date":"2026-04-16T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/ai-is-destroying-jobs-and-the-energy-crisis-could-make-that-much-worse-larry-elliott\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:37:23","slug":"ai-is-destroying-jobs-and-the-energy-crisis-could-make-that-much-worse-larry-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/ai-is-destroying-jobs-and-the-energy-crisis-could-make-that-much-worse-larry-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is destroying jobs \u2013 and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren\u2019t planning a human response on the scale required <\/p>\n<p>The transition to a world of artificial intelligence has given a whole new meaning to the concept that capitalism can only renew itself through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2020\/sep\/24\/disruption-big-tech-buzzword-silicon-valley-power\">creative destruction<\/a>. This is the idea that clapped-out technologies have to be replaced by new ways of doing things, even though the process can be brutal.<\/p>\n<p>That has been the way of things for every new wave of inventions since the dawn of the industrial age in the mid-18th century, but with machines now displaying cognitive skills, able to both think and learn, the potential for economic disruption<strong> <\/strong>is all the greater.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Elliott is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/16\/ai-destroying-jobs-energy-crisis-worse-doomsday-scenario\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ec63cb16f445d0edfab5627224295056e3e39a62\/549_0_6504_5203\/master\/6504.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2a526b8d501601867bc1d2831af9e064\" title=\"AI is destroying jobs \u2013 and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott\" \/>Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren\u2019t planning a human response on the scale required<br \/>\nThe transition to a world of artificial intelligence has given a whole new meaning to the concept that capitalism can only renew itself through creative destruction. This is the idea that clapped-out technologies have to be replaced by new ways of doing things, even though the process can be brutal.<br \/>\nThat has been the way of things for every new wave of inventions since the dawn of the industrial age in the mid-18th century, but with machines now displaying cognitive skills, able to both think and learn, the potential for economic disruption is all the greater.<br \/>\nLarry Elliott is a Guardian columnist Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren\u2019t planning a human response on the scale required The transition to a world of artificial intelligence has given a whole new meaning to the concept that capitalism can only renew itself through creative destruction. This is the idea that clapped-out &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/ai-is-destroying-jobs-and-the-energy-crisis-could-make-that-much-worse-larry-elliott\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI is destroying jobs \u2013 and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}