Every few weeks, a new headline lands in the same inbox. “AI will cause mass layoffs.” “AI is the next dot-com bubble.” “AI is overhyped.” “AI is the end of white-collar work.” Pick one, and there’s a hot take to match it. I want to offer a different perspective — one that I think gets closer to the truth than either the doomers or the dismissers. AI is real. AI is disruptive. AI is not a bubble. But what AI actually does, and who it actually threatens, is more specific and more interesting than the headlines suggest. We’ve been here…