Modern economies were built on a simple assumption: intelligence, expertise, and judgement were scarce.

That assumption no longer holds.

In this conversation, economist S Asieh Tabaghdehi, PhD explores how AI is reshaping labour markets, destabilising human capital, and quietly breaking the assumptions modern economies were built on.We discuss why entry-level knowledge work is being replaced first, why skills and credentials no longer offer the protection people expect, and why education systems and institutions are structurally unable to keep pace with the speed of AI capability.