Can the Recovery Mechanism Survive AI? Skill Formation, Labor, and What Current Measurement Misses

ArXi:2605.16283v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Throughout the modern era, when new technologies displaced workers, societies adapted through the same mechanism: education raised the cognitive ceiling, producing workers capable of tasks machines could not yet reach. Generative AI may be the first technology to break this cycle, because it now operates at the top of that ceiling.