AI is not a dotcom replay. It is a debt-fuelled infrastructure buildout with rising energy bills, record capex, and no quantum shortcut. Numbers, not vibes.

Leaders say trades are safest from AI. Hinton points to plumbing. Altman flags customer service risk. Truth: no job is static. Learn to fix robots and code.

UK firms still live on paper and extra checks while sensors and software cut downtime and costs. The lag shows in flat productivity. Here are the numbers and the fix.