Zach WeinersmithOne of the weirdest things to me about the tech scene for AI is you regularly hear variants on "Super-human intelligence is coming next year and will permanently alter life as we know it. Prepare your business and finances accordingly." Setting aside what you think about the first half, how does the second half make any sense? Like... what would you do differently, other than move to the woods?
fraggLe!@ZachWeinersmith My uneducated take is that they don't really believe in the first part, the push behind AI is a ploy to push down salaries. The second part is because it only really works if everyone colludes with them. If you're not "preparing" by laying off some of your knowledge workers, or worse, are actively scooping up the laid-off folks from other orgs, why that's just terrible for them.
But they can't say that, so they mask it behind a veneer of irresponsible dead-reckoning.