Arielle Pardes on AI will create a permanent underclass

Arielle Pardes

Award-winning technology journalist covering artificial intelligence and its social impacts.

There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those who won’t have upward mobility in the age of AI. The phrase usually describes a future in which AI automates human jobs. But for women in tech, it’s starting to look like the present.

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There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those who won’t have upward mobility in the age of AI. The phrase usually describes a future in which AI automates human jobs. But for women in tech, it’s starting to look like the present.

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AI Verified The passage explicitly describes a future in which AI automates human jobs and defines the resulting “permanent underclass” as people without upward mobility in the age of AI; it says this is already starting to occur for women in tech. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 57min ago

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AI Verified The author presents AI-driven job automation and the resulting loss of upward mobility as producing a permanent underclass, including effects already appearing for women in tech; this supports the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 57min ago

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AI Verified The Guardian article is by Arielle Pardes, dated 4 October 2026, and reproduces this passage verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 57min ago

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