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I would hate a hammer if everyone I cannot send dickwise demanded I perform brain surgery with it.
And that’s exactly where AI fits currently.
Imagine the head of a factory declaring, "Why am I paying all these people to assemble products when I could give 20% of them hammers and fire the rest."
I dunno about this analogy, I think if a hammer just got invented then for some trades 20% of the workforce with hammers will dramatically outperform the full workforce without.
AI is just not a hammer-calibre tool to begin with, but honesty I'd rather argue about where we go even if we imagine AI really is that useful. People being laid off en masse should be much more concerning than which technology their employers dramatically overestimed to get to that point. I think I'd be just as upset about mass layoffs in a fictional world where they were a sound business decision. I actually don't care that those decisions will tank some business after the next quarter.
It was mostly a joke because AI is getting shoehorned into everything in ways that makes as much sense as a hammer at every station of an assembly line; at the very least, AI is not actually replacing the laid off workers who were fired for lack of projects and work.
What I also think is pretty great about the AI-backlash is that it's effecting the educated "middle class", which has built society around gate keeping degrees. Nobody generally gave a shit when modernization displaced factory workers ("just the price of progress!"), because working with the BRAIN is obviously morally superior (/s), but now knowledge work is effected, they're feeling a drop of class consciousness.