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Powerful people are optimistic about AI because it will consolidate wealth in the hands of the powerful. The rest of us see ourselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, so we try to imitate the rich people we believe ourselves to be. The people who will be hurt the most by AI are outwardly, loudly optimistic that AI will enrich them too, even though it’s a lie.
This is where I can’t help but land with it. LinkedIn’s a chorus of middle-management knowledge workers enthusiastically cheering on their own demise.
It used to be that one of the major sources of value that corporations brought to society was job creation. They already get enormous tax cuts in part on the basis that this is a value they provide. It doesn’t feel like job creation is a metric they’re accountable to anymore — in fact, the metric to chase seems to have become how many jobs they can eliminate.
Feels like capitalism ain’t capitalisming anymore.
The way I think about it is, the people who hold the most capital will benefit the most from eliminating human workers. So it’s really the final form of capitalism.
The middle managers on LinkedIn mistakenly believe that what’s good for “the company” is good for them. (Or they pretend to believe that, for LinkedIn clout.) They haven’t thought it through any further. They’re just trying to keep their current jobs, where their bosses have told them that AI is the future and if they resist it, they’ll be left behind.
The way I see it, AI makes it easier for individuals to act like groups. Yes, big corporations will cut thousands of jobs they can replace with AI, but that also means more people can start small companies that compete at the same level as big companies because they also don’t need to hire hundreds of people to run like a big business. I think the world will look different, but it seems like AI does become a great equalizer in the end
Honestly, unless you're a millionaire and work for fun, optimism in the age of AI is misguided. Best believe all our jobs won't exist in 5 to 10 years time, some will, a whole lot won't.