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Real estate is the latest industry where investors are assessing whether AI will hollow out labor-intensive business models and compress margins at companies that sell expertise at high prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

She’s worried Maui’s exorbitant rental prices, driven in part by vacation rentals that hog a limited housing supply, will hollow out her tight-knit town.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024

Without that long-term commitment, “We will hollow out this county in a way that is not what any of us want,” Storck said.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022

Artificial intelligence will hollow out the jobs market, Yang predicts.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2019

But the drop from a house corner will hollow a stone by its constancy, and Major Magruder at last persuaded the House to grant him a Committee of Inquiry.

From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony