I think the author of this article is severely deluded about the nature of wage labour AND AI, for that matter. He has probably been watching Black Mirror too many times..
"To understand what’s coming, you need to understand what enterprise AI systems actually are. These are different from the interfaces you use at home. Enterprise AI systems are platforms that integrate directly into corporate workflows—think of Microsoft Copilot embedded in Word, Excel and Outlook, or Salesforce’s Einstein AI woven into customer-relationship management. These systems sit inside the tools where you already work. And they can potentially capture much of your work within the platform, learning from many interactions, and embedding that knowledge into company-owned infrastructure.
What once lived only in employees’ heads, built through years of experience and hard-won expertise, is increasingly being institutionalized in real time. When you leave, at least some of your knowledge stays behind, embedded in systems that will be used by the AI and by your replacement (if a replacement is needed at all).
Imagine that you’re a senior software engineer debugging a system crash. You run a bunch of tests to figure out the problem, and when you discover the solution isn’t in the documentation, you develop a novel workaround. You share the solution with the company, obviously, but the expertise and techniques that you brought to the problem were all yours, in a fundamental way. You figured out the workaround because of what you know and how you work.
That is the way things used to be, anyway. When you do your work through enterprise AI, though, the system doesn’t just record your solution. It can capture your problem-solving approach: which questions you asked first, how you refined the search when initial attempts failed, potentially even the logical steps that led you from symptom to cause.."
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-knowledge-capture-employees-a69a0e1c
#AI #EnterpriseAI #WhiteCollarJobs #Automation #Productivity
While I’m generally cautious about AI—and even open to working in the field—the claims in this article are troubling.
We must consider the broader economic impact. What happens to the people whose jobs are displaced? How will they afford Microsoft or other tech products if they’re unemployed or pushed into lower‑wage work? And if they leave the tech industry entirely, will they still want to buy or support these technologies?
Here's a quote from the Fortune article:
"In a recent conversation with the Financial Times, the CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, delivered another in a series of predictions from AI leaders that white-collar work is on the precipice of a radical transformation thanks to AI. His timeline is 18 months until those law school and MBA grads—and many less-credentialed peers—are out of luck."
#AI #WhiteCollarJobs #FutureOfWork #Automation #JobMarket #DigitalTransformation
"An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world to its core — and upend our economy, politics, and social lives. Yet most people are still going about their business, oblivious as dinosaurs in the shadow of a descending asteroid.
This is what many in and around the AI industry believe, anyway.
Except, in this telling, the invisible force that’s about to change our world isn’t a virus that will rip through the population and then ebb. Rather, it is an information technology that will irreversibly transform (if not extinguish) white-collar labor, accelerate scientific progress, destabilize political systems, and, perhaps, get us all killed.
Of course, such apocalyptic chatter has always hummed in the background of the AI discourse. But it’s grown much louder in recent weeks.
This week, Matt Shumer, the CEO of HyperWrite, an AI productivity company, published a viral essay arguing that we’re on the cusp of “something much, much bigger than COVID.” Over the past year, Shumer wrote, tech workers had watched AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do” — and that “is the experience everyone else is about to have.”"
https://www.vox.com/politics/478794/ai-economy-claude-code-jobs-openai-anthropic
#AI #GenerativeAI #Automation #WhitecollarJobs #Productivity #MassUnemployment
Adults share 'overrated adult goals' that younger people should avoid falling for
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/adults-share-overrated-advice
"They discovered that, in fact, a miniature workday was forming in the late evening. About one-third of the workers in their study were as likely to work at 10 p.m. as they were at 8 a.m. The reason? When the pandemic sent knowledge workers home, official meetings replaced casual interactions and made it impossible for many people to get things done unless they found time to log back online after dinner."
"They discovered that, in fact, a miniature workday was forming in the late evening. About one-third of the workers in their study were as likely to work at 10 p.m. as they were at 8 a.m. The reason? When the pandemic sent knowledge workers home, official #meetings replaced casual interactions and made it impossible for many people to get things done unless they found time to log back online after dinner.
The Impact of AI on the Middle Class Economy
A late-night scroll through 2024’s tech headlines reveals billions in profits. There are AI breakthroughs. However, there's a quiet undercurrent of layoffs. Hundreds of thousands of workers are gone. I wonder what will happen if the machines we build to make life easier begin to dismantle our society's foundation. The promise of artificial intelligence dazzles—productivity, efficiency, cost cuts. But the shadow it casts is long, and the middle class, once the heartbeat of the U.S. […]https://munaeem.de/2025/06/07/the-impact-of-ai-on-the-middle-class-economy/
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