I don't think nationalising the AI labs is happening.

I agree the article is a bit odd. Alignment is mostly about making AI helpful and not wanting to kill people unless it's told to (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkirichenko/2026/05/12/ukra...).

The article is talking more about people like translators being replaced by AI translation. I don't think any of the labs have a department of making it worse so it can't do people's jobs.

The normal way of dealing with tech doing peoples jobs is to help them get different jobs. I've got a translator friend who did a government paid course to train as a tour guide - that sort of thing.