Forbes October 16, 2025
When Elizabeth Taylor famously declared her love was “forever,” she meant it—at least until it wasn’t. Decades later, Taylor Swift captures the same longing in her recent song “Elizabeth Taylor” Lyrics – “Do You Think It’s Forever?” from The Life of a Showgirl, reflecting on permanence, desire and inevitability. Yet what once applied to love and fame now finds a startling parallel in the world of technology: artificial intelligence. As Walmart partners with OpenAI to reimagine retail, we are forced to ask the same haunting question Swift poses: do we think it’s forever? And if AI’s reign is permanent, what becomes of the millions of human jobs that have sustained the economy until now, and how can humans continue to...







