YOU ARE ALL FIRED BY AN ALGORITHM: AI, Automation and What We Do When Jobs Disappear

This is not a book about AI taking jobs.It is a book about what happens to a society when work disappears — and what replaces it.A machine does not need a salary.It does not need rest.And it is now learning to do not just tasks — but judgement, coordination, and decision-making.This is not a distant future.It is already happening.★★★★★ “A must-read if you care about your job.”★★★★★ “Very relevant — exactly when it is required.”Across industries, artificial intelligence is replacing workers faster than new roles can be created. Entire job categories are being automated at once — not over decades, but within years. Goldman Sachs puts 300 million jobs at risk. McKinsey estimates 30% of all global work hours could be automated by 2026.This is not a projection. It is an early signal.And when displacement happens at that scale, the problem is no longer technological.It becomes economic.It becomes political.It becomes deeply human.★★★★★ “A wake-up call and a roadmap… grounded in facts with pragmatic solutions.”This is the Coalescence.Not gradual erosion. A synchronised economic shock — millions displaced at once, across every sector, faster than systems can adapt.What happens when millions of people are displaced at the same time?When income disappears — but identity, purpose, and structure disappear with it?When the systems designed to protect workers were built for short-term unemployment, not permanent displacement?And here is the paradox that makes this unlike any crisis before it.When workers disappear, so do customers. The same automation that cuts costs also destroys the consumer base that companies depend on. The economy does not just contract. It hollows out.You Are All Fired By An Algorithm explores the real consequences of AI-driven job loss — not just for individuals, but for entire economies.It examines:Why AI and automation are fundamentally different from past technological revolutionsHow mass unemployment could emerge far faster than governments expectWhy current safety nets — retraining, unemployment benefits, job centres — are not built for this shiftThe growing concentration of power and profit in a small number of AI-driven companies★★★★★ “Readable, compelling, and full of credible, doable solutions.”But this is not just a warning.The book sets out a clear, structured response:Emergency Relief and Transition Funds for displaced workersLarge-scale lifelong learning systemsPublic Purpose Work to restore meaning and structureUniversal Basic Income at a level that provides real securityA new approach to taxing AI-driven profits to fund it allLouis Halpern has spent 25 years deploying technology inside major organisations — including the BBC, M&S, and Nando’s. A neurodivergent Londoner, his pattern-recognition abilities have given him a front-row seat to what is coming, and a growing alarm at our inadequate response. This is not a warning from the outside. It is a warning from someone who watched the machine being built.This book is about the future of work, AI unemployment, and the restructuring of society itself.Because when work disappears, everything built around it must change.The question is no longer if this happens.It is whether you — as a worker, a voter, a business owner, a policymaker — are ready when it does.Because this time, you are not competing with another human.You are competing with a system that does not need you.