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What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts redefining work? In this Signal & Noise episode, Brett House and Rio Longacre speak with Jennifer Borchardt on how AI is reshaping jobs, careers, and identity. They explore the decline of specialization, the rise of “hyphenate” workers, and the risks of inequality as AI transforms the labor economy and challenges the future of purpose.

We’re entering a post-labor economy where value shifts from human effort to compute ownership. As AI becomes the operating environment—not just a tool—the real work moves from creation to verification. Specialists give way to “hyphenate” orchestrators who audit, guide, and stress-test intelligent systems. In this world, resilience—not productivity—is the metric that defines winners.