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"AI will be disruptive. Jobs will look different, companies will have to adapt, and all of us – from shift workers to CEOs – will have to learn how to work in n
by bgwalter 1y ago
"AI will be disruptive. Jobs will look different, companies will have to adapt, and all of us – from shift workers to CEOs – will have to learn how to work in new ways," she said in a blog post.
We don't have to do anything. People always listen to this propaganda from the wealthy and think the latest gadgets are inevitable.
We can go on a general strike until copyright is restored and the "AI" companies go bankrupt. Journalists can write sharper and sharper articles. You can refuse to use "AI". If mandated in a job, demonstrate that it slows you down (probably true anyway).
You can demand an investigation into Suchir Balai's demise (actually Elon Musk recently endorsed a tweet demanding just that; you can, too).
You can boycott robotaxis. You can stop watching YouTube channels that do product placement of humanoid robots. You can do a lot of things.
- muldvarp 1y agoThis won't happen. Even if western countries will outlaw LLMs (they won't, people care about unemployed software developers just as much as most software developers cared about unemployed translators), China won't. And why would we even do that? Because software developers like their cushy job and don't want to do blue-collar jobs?
- bgwalter 1y agoChina FOMO? Xi Jin Ping has warned twice about an "AI" bubble: https://www.ft.com/content/9c19d26f-57b3-4754-ac20-eeb627e8723e https://www.ft.com/content/9c19d26f-57b3-4754-ac20-eeb627e87... https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for-ai-it-might-be-smarter-581f1e44 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for... China restricts "AI" across the country to prevent cheating: https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/china-restricts-ai-across-the-country-to-prevent-kids-cheating-america-could-learn-from-it/ https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/china-restricts-ai-... Why would we do that? Because we can! Why would we let some rich brats who have never created something and just steal human knowledge get even richer and control and surveil us all?
- jplusequalt 1y ago>Because software developers like their cushy job and don't want to do blue-collar jobs? In the US of A, most blue-collar jobs: 1. Pay less 2. Offer poor, or zero benefits 3. Are hard on your body Not to mention that if suddenly millions of people flood the markets for blue-collar work, then wages will drop further in those fields. Why would you expect someone to be comfortable with that future?
- muldvarp 1y agoI wouldn't. But most software developers didn't care whether translators liked the new jobs they had to find. So I think most non-programmers won't care whether you'll like your new job.
- thoroughburro 1y ago> We can go on a general strike until copyright is restored and the "AI" companies go bankrupt. Journalists can write sharper and sharper articles. You can refuse to use "AI". This sounds like naive wishful thinking. Add “theoretically” after every “can” for real life.
- bgwalter 1y agoIt has worked against nuclear energy in Germany. The major protests were in the 1980s against an all powerful government and an all powerful industry lobby. Personally, I'm for nuclear energy but this is one of many examples that a population can get its will.
- j1000 1y agoFinally some common sense here. This is exactly my thoughts, how come in age of instant information flow people cannot gather together under one idea. How French Revolution could happen without Messenger and WhatsUp? People had to walk and talk about idea. AI CEOs are talking like they are oracles but they just need to please stakeholders.
- thoroughburro 1y ago> how come in age of instant information flow people cannot gather together under one idea Because instant misinformation is even faster and satisfies their biases.