For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them
For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them
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If you are reading this, just know you are about to be uploaded to the cloud very fucking soon. You will lucid dream in the metaverse via neuralink.
First AI will take the jobs. Then AI will also take over the role of the customers. Then AI will take control of the businesses themselves. Who needs humans!
Start by replacing CEOs, its the easiest place to start
Well yea lol.
People in capitalism are a cost to be mitigated and eventually removed. Only reason this wasn’t the case historically was because you would just ramp up production, but now the issue isn’t a need for human input to increase productivity, it’s just power consumption issue, so we’ve hit the end game, and now people are starting to lose their jobs.
Many people on this sub constantly underestimate AI, but at the same time fears AI replacing everyone’s jobs
How can you reconcile that AI is both useless and can’t do anything and that they can take over people’s jobs and we should worry
The level of underestimation of AI outside of tech spaces is extreme
Well, I guess since no human work will be needed, then nobody deserves more than the other, and our society will becole a society of sharing, care and love. Right? Right???
Yep, it is about replacing labor with capital. There also won’t be any UBI.
I’m sure that’s the long term goal, but in the short term driving down salaries by talking about eliminating all dev jobs is the real goal.
The question remains what a company is all about if they do not employ people. I get it, product. But whom for, if noone is earning money to buy/attain it?
When they replace all the workers with AI, who are they going to sell their products to?
People aren’t going to have jobs, so they won’t be able to afford anything
So it’s going to be the CEO running a bunch of AI assistants?
Or
Is it going to be a CEO and a bunch of managers running the AI assistants?
Given that we’re seeing that grok has gone off the rails due to manipulating its training, I wonder if this desire to replace so many people will eventually fall on its face due to pesky reality rearing its head.
If you are only now waking up to what AI means…
Also, this is not a silicone valley thing, the impact will be huge regardless of who is standing behind it. Technology is apolitical like that.
The only way it could be otherwise is if society whole heartedly tries to reject it. And in the end anywhere that does that will become a global trade backwater making few exports of inferior stuff that domestic customers are paying far beyond the market value for in order to hold the stance together.
1st world nations have ended up being forced to go to the world bank for emergency loans and forceful economic reform doing this.
>It’s about replacing all of them.
As it should be. Being forced to exchange labour for livelihood ought to be considered a violation of human rights in an advanced, civilised society. Humans should be free to “work” on what we want to work on, liberated from the profit and survival incentives. Our basic needs must be met by the system we elect—if not, we keep voting it out until it does.
Genuinely think some of them believe this is possible, but some of them also want to scare us into taking any job available and not complaining. Enshitification is coming for everything and everyone.
They also thought we’d wear those stupid face goggles and live in a virtual world. They get stuff wrong
Trying to pry Americans away from their consumer lifestyle at this point will make Prohibition look like a minor argument.