The human being, as a species, has survived industrial revolutions, technological dictatorships and economic collapses with an adaptation capacity that challenges logic. But this time, the challenge is not only different: it is total. Because if in 1811 the luditas (British artisan movement) broke looms in Nottingham, today we do not even see the source codes that leave us out of the game. The Artificial Intelligence (AI)that for years it was a promise in the laboratory or a concept of science fiction, it has become a concrete, disruptive and, above all, exclusive. And the problem is not advancing.
The problem is that we are not doing it at the same rate. In labor terms, we are living what we could call “The Great Gap”: an abysmal distance between what the AI is able to do and what human workers are being able to convert. It is not a crack; It is a crater.
Statistics does not lie: exclusion numbers
According to the June 2025 ILO report, the 58% of jobs in the services in developed economies are at direct automation risk in the next decade. Even more shocking: the 73% of workers do not have sufficient training in basic digital skills. And if we look Latin America, the panorama is even more bleak: only the 18% of workers access technological update programs in their jobs. A study of the World Economic Forum this year projects that by 2030 more of 83 million traditional positionsalthough they will be created 69 million new roles linked to emerging technologies. The balance is clearly negative and deeply unequal.
Because while in countries like South Korea or Estonia the State invests until 3% of GDP in continuous digital trainingin Argentina we barely overcome the 0.14%. They are leaving us outside, and this time there will be no pickets that stop the algorithm.
The AI does not sleep: it works 24/7, learns in seconds and does not ask for a bonus
The algorithms of AI already write contracts, judicial writings and participate in oral judgments, select staff, teach, generate music, edit videos and even diagnose diseases with greater precision than human doctors. What space is then for man?
The generative AI, such as GPT-4O, Midjourney, Sora and Claude 3, are pushing an invisible border. What was previously “Qualified work” It is now replicable, automatized and optimized by a machine. And they do it without union conflicts, without art, without fatigue or vacation.
The critical point is in the “Adaptive response time”: a McKinsey study indicates that a worker needs an average between 6 and 18 months To adapt to an advanced technological tool change, while an updated AI does so in less than 36 hours. Translated: They fly, we stumble.
Employment and Obsolescence: The new excluded from the modern world
The phenomenon of “Accelerated disrowning” It is brutal: Junior lawyers replaced by legal search engines with predictive jurisprudence; journalists displaced by automatic editors; Call Center operators supplanted by last generation chatbots that detect emotions. In Argentina, the permanent household survey indicates that the 31% of workers between 35 and 50 feel that their job “will not exist in 10 years”. It is not paranoia: it is diagnosis.
The gap as abyss: Is this digital exclusion reversible?
Yes, but it requires political decision, private investment and adaptive culture. And above all, it requires a Emergency pedagogy. It’s not about learning to program because it is in fashion. It is about understanding the code as we understood reading in the nineteenth century: as a door to the productive world. It is not optional. Because while in Silicon Valley they argue about algorithmic ethics, in the killing Word 2007 is still taught. Argentina needs a national labor reconversion plan linked to AI. But not one of PowerPoint. We need hybrid classrooms, public training programs in Data Science, tax incentives for companies that train and, above all, will that no one is behind.
The problem is not AI. The problem is us.
AI is not guilty. It has no intentions, it does not conspire. He does what we teach him. The drama is that we are not teaching the right thing, much less learning what is necessary. The fault is not of the algorithm, but of a leadership that still debates if education must be digital, while the world already discusses whether the human must continue to educate or be replaced by an adaptive virtual tutor. If politics does not assume this challenge with a patriotic look, we will witness an unprecedented exclusion: silent, impersonal, irreversible.
What is coming? A new social class: the “not algorithmized”
As in the nineteenth century the proletariat emerged, in the 21st century the excluded digital arises. Not due to lack of will, but for lack of access, training, opportunities. And that new gap is not measured in income, but in bits. The new illiteracy is not knowing how to read, it is not knowing how to interact with a system. Do not understand how an API works. Not being able to use a development environment. Not knowing what a neuronal network is. The class struggle will not be between capital and labor, but between connected and disconnected. Among those who understand the language of the century and those who continue to write by machine.
CONCLUSION: Either we all digitize ourselves, or leave us all
Argentina has human capital, creativity and resources. What is missing is strategic vision. It is no longer enough to train good lawyers, doctors or teachers. We must form citizens of the 21st century: critics, autonomous, technological. If we do not, this time they will not leave us out for poor, or underdeveloped. They are going to leave us out of analog. For when the State and its governments will give birth to the Ministry of AI!
Specialist in Work and Master in Employment and Judicial Innovation. Diploma applied to management in digital environments, explains the AI gap with humanity.
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