This edition of Platformer is about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . One obvious reason for the public’s rapid turn against AI is the fear that it will someday take their jobs. It’s a fear the AI industry has encouraged them to have: tech CEOs issue regular warnings about AI-related job loss — and it’s already starting to show up in Silicon Valley. In March alone, tech companies announced nearly 46,000 layoffs — the worst single-month total in more than a year — with a growing number of executives citing AI as a factor in their thinning headcounts. Anthropic's Economic Index shows the share of work-related AI conversations climbing into nearly every white-collar profession. And a steady drumbeat of research suggests that entry-level work — the rung of the ladder most exposed to LLMs — is showing the earliest signs of disruption. In one sign of how seriously the tech industry is taking this, Google DeepMind workers in the United Kingdom just voted to unionize.…