Joseph Stiglitz has spent decades challenging economic orthodoxy. The Nobel laureate sees artificial intelligence not as a neutral force of progress but as a powerful accelerator of divides that already scar American society. In a recent interview, he delivered a blunt assessment. AI will make the “tech bro” class richer. It can take your job. That warning, delivered with the clarity of an economist who has advised presidents and dissected market failures, lands at a moment when tech fortunes swell and layoffs ripple through industries. Stiglitz, now 83, draws on patterns he has documented for years. Technology concentrates gains among capital owners. Workers shoulder the risks. This time feels different. His latest comments appear in Fortune . There he describes how AI lets firms strip labor from production. Profits pool at the top. Transition costs fall on employees and the public. The mechanism is straightforward. Algorithms handle tasks once done by analysts, clerks, even mid-level professionals.…