The prediction claimed that essentially any white‑collar/knowledge worker who did not start using modern AI tools in 2023 would be out of a job and unable to compete in the labor market by roughly 2025.

By late 2025, survey data show that:

• Only about 21% of U.S. workers say at least some of their work is done with AI; 65% say they don’t use AI much or at all. (pewresearch.org)
• A February 2025 Pew survey finds 69% of workers do not use AI chatbots at work at all, including 40% who have never used them for work and 29% who haven’t even heard of workplace chatbot use. (pewresearch.org)
• Gallup reports that even by 2025 only 27% of white‑collar employees are frequent users of AI at work, meaning the clear majority of white‑collar workers are not heavy users. (gallup.com)

At the same time, the overall U.S. unemployment rate in late 2025 is around 4.4%, not remotely suggestive of mass job loss among the majority of workers who rarely or never use AI. (reuters.com) Other research likewise shows that only about half of workers worldwide used any AI in their role in the past 12 months, with just 14% using generative AI daily—again implying that large numbers of non‑users remain employed and competitive. (pwc.com)

Because millions of white‑collar/knowledge workers still have jobs despite not using AI tools regularly (and many never having used them at all), the universal claim that such workers would be "out of a job" and unable to compete by this timeframe is contradicted by the data. Therefore, the prediction is wrong.