The AI Takeover Is Personal—And It’s Funded

Silicon Valley’s quiet plan isn’t to replace some jobs with AI, it’s to replace all of them. And they’re not asking for permission. They’re asking for compute.

At a VC dinner in San Francisco, a tech veteran said the quiet part out loud: the goal of AI isn’t productivity, it’s total labour replacement, somehting I have been saying for years.

Companies like Mechanize, backed by Google’s Jeff Dean, are building toward “full economic automation.” Musk, Gates, and Hinton agree: most human jobs are on borrowed time. I believe that by 2030, in 4,5 years, >1 billion jobs will be destroyed.

GPT-4 can pass the bar and out-code its creators; humanoid robots are handling factory work and prepping for home use. This isn’t a fringe vision, it’s a well-funded plan to convert wages into capital returns.

So we need to ask:

• What’s driving this push; vision or greed?
• Who gets left behind?
• What comes after work disappears?

If AI owns the means of production, what do we own?

Read the full article on The Guardian.

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