Labour market · Border Collie
AI upends the labour market – the Border Collie fears for its job
Der Hündeler, Edition of Wednesday, 11 November 2026
What happened
Artificial intelligence is throwing the labour market into turmoil, says Andrea Nahles, head of Germany’s Federal Employment Agency. Whether AI costs countless jobs or creates many new ones is open; Nahles has presented a calculation for the future.
What does this mean for your Border Collie?
No dog defines itself through work as much as the Border Collie. If it has none, it herds children, cyclists and the robot vacuum cleaner. Elsewhere sheep are already being driven by drones, so the competition is real. The good news: a machine can count sheep, but it cannot stare at them. The bad news: an unemployed Border Collie does not retrain. It dismantles the sofa.
What you can do now: Organise something for it to do before it does so itself.