Can AI Lower the Cost of Starting Over?

AI is changing what work looks like. Everyone agrees on that. But I think we're asking the wrong question.

We ask: which jobs will AI replace? Maybe the better question is: can AI lower the cost of changing direction?

Not a robot taking a desk. But a personal tutor available at midnight. A career navigator when you're staring at the ceiling. A companion for the transition.

Not replacing humans. Reducing the price of transition.

If retraining takes five years today - maybe AI makes it two. If starting over feels impossible - maybe AI makes it just very hard.

But AI alone doesn't solve the structural problem. If the mortgage still doesn't pause. If healthcare disappears the moment you quit. If one wrong year destroys ten good ones - the cost of change stays too high. Regardless of technology.

The real project - for society, for policy, for AI - is not guaranteeing success. It's making change survivable.

Not "you will land well." Just - "you won't fall apart if you try."

That feels like a different goal than income. And I think it's the one worth talking about.