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# The AI Takeover Is Personal—And It’s Funded
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/the-ai-takeover-is-personal-and-its-funded/
- Published: 2025-05-12T19:26:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T05:23:28.000Z
- Description: 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.
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: News, #seo-post-1

Silicon Valley’s quiet plan isn’t to replace some jobs with [AI](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-keynote-speaker/), 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](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com).

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