Goldman Sachs Warns Humans May Soon Go the Way of Horses, Jobs Included

KEY POINTS

•Goldman Sachs released a report in January 2026 warning AI could automate 25% of U.S. work hours, sparking job apocalypse fears.
•Anthropic launched AI tools like Claude Code and Cowork automating workplace tasks, while Mercor hired 30,000 contractors to train AI across medical and psychological fields.
•Elon Musk claimed on a podcast that AI can replace half of white-collar jobs now and predicted robot surgeons will operate at scale within three years.

In a stunning tech deja vu, Goldman Sachs warned in mid-January 2026 that AI could automate a quarter of U.S. work hours, making humans obsolete like horses with startup Mercor’s $10 billion AI-training army of 30,000 contractors replacing psychologists and dermatologists. Meanwhile, Anthropic revealed its AI, Claude Code, created another AI, Cowork, to swamp us with presentations and meeting summaries—because why drop one AI when you can auto-birth another? Silicon Valley insiders have privately ghosted the H-1B visa game, betting AI will handle foreign brains, and Elon Musk, on the January 2026 Moonshots podcast, announced robot surgeons will take over hospitals in 3 years, declaring medical school ‘pointless except for social reasons.’ Does this timeline scream ‘job apocalypse’ or ‘welcome to the horse-drawn carriage.’

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