Dread Pirate (Tom) RobertsMar 1

Fucking Alan Kohler... the ABC does the public a disservice by printing his garbage.

"It isn't just that AI could take your job, or put millions of people on welfare, or give us infinite free software, or whatever. It's that for the first time in all of recorded history, humans no longer are — or soon no longer will be — the most intelligent beings on this planet, in any meaningful functional sense of the word." (Alan quoting some guy Noah Smith)

"any meaningful functional sense"

... someone show Alan the carwash video.

#AI #AlanKohler

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Following on from my 'Fucking Alan Kohler' post, in which I accused the ABC of printing uncritical regurgitation of tech bro CEO hype...

Here The Guardian at least managed to turn a critical eye on CEOs claiming AI is replacing their staff.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/jack-dorsey-block-ai-worker-jobs

(It's hardly Ed Zitron levels of scathing condescension, but at least it's an attempt at analysis from the mainstream news sites)

#ai

Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so

Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 workers at Block amid AI advances – but specters such as weak crypto market haunt company

The Guardian
Mar 3 at 8:56pmWeb