I expect 99% of CEOs to get laid off. They are too lazy, expensive and don’t want to work. Ripe for automation.
When CEOs layouts? We can have 200 workers for their pay which will be “prompt engineers”.
I ask again to consider that AI does not have to replace human labour to lead to layoffs. All it has to do is help existing labour to produce more in the same amount of time. In an economy that doesn’t suddenly want to buy more product than it previously did, that means letting go of the people whose labour is no longer needed to produce the same amount product it previously had. Whether or not corpos are using AI as cover for layoffs, if today’s AI increases productivity, it very likely will lead to layoffs. And there are signs that it does indeed increase productivity in some tasks in certain sectors.
I guess the office leases weren’t THAT important after all
What I wonder is: how are they going to call in all the AI workers for meetings?
And what doe RTO look like for an LLM?
I find it weird how so many companies are targeting for layoffs instead of expanding the company. You get an accelerator…
Tariffa and Hormuz makes things expensive. People buy less so companies sell less. Layoffs everywhere.
They expect layoffs. They’re just going to blame AI for it.
Exactly this… Even ones actually attributed to AI will likely be an overreach that won’t be realized until after a person’s life has been totally upended… Shit’s gonna be bleak
This is too dismissive.
Industrialization and automation has already eliminated an entire class of work that was otherwise there.
In a hunter gathered society or an early industrial society there was always work for everyone, in modern capitalist society, there quite frankly isn’t, and that leads to huge numbers of people just being cast aside.
And AI may wipe out a huge number of the rest. I genuinely can’t possibly fathom how it will do anything but exacerbate every single one of society’s problems.
LLMs are not and will never be good enough to replace human labor. Augment it, sure, and that could lead to fewer jobs but that’s not generally what happens. They are, however, good enough for execs to think they can replace human labor.
They don’t have to be as good to replace us.
Replace C-suite executives with AI before the layoffs, then transition to a Co-Op. ✊🏼
Passive voice shenanigans. They expect to lay off. They’re the ones doing it.
“Expect”. As though it’s entirely out of their hands.
You know, a year ago people in charge were all, like nooo we’re not going to fire people and pocket the payroll savings
When did we cross the line where everybody stopped lying? I mean, our vaunted business leaders dropping the bullshit is welcome, even if its bad news… but the interesting bit is in the collective, unconscious decision to just own up to this as the likeliest future.
The Trump admin has emboldened the entire upper echelons of society to drop pretense because enough of society is stupid enough to always buy it even if its painfully obvious that they are lying. They feel untouchable with their buddies in charge.
Well good news then, 99% of the population is going to force these 1% CEOs to be …laid off…
