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SAM ALTMAN: CALLING OUT AI CEOS SAYING 50% OF JOBS WILL DISAPPEAR IS TONE DEAF AS HELL. “TO SAY NOTHING OF HOW TONE DEAF IT IS FOR SOMEONE TO BE SAYING, MY COMPANY’S GOING TO ELIMINATE 50% OF THE JOBS AND MY COMPANY’S GOING TO BE THE MOST VALUABLE COMPANY IN HUMAN HISTORY”
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SAM ALTMAN: CALLING OUT AI CEOS SAYING 50% OF JOBS WILL DISAPPEAR IS TONE DEAF AS HELL. “TO SAY NOTHING OF HOW TONE DEAF IT IS FOR SOMEONE TO BE SAYING, MY COMPANY’S GOING TO ELIMINATE 50% OF THE JOBS AND MY COMPANY’S GOING TO BE THE MOST VALUABLE COMPANY IN HUMAN HISTORY”

Vivek Sen

28,358 views • 2 months ago

Sam Altman on the most tone-deaf prediction being made by AI CEOs today: He pushes back on the gloomy predictions in the AI industry about mass unemployment. "I know some AI CEOs are saying things like 50% of the jobs are going to go away." Sam Altman finds this framing not just wrong, but tone-deaf: "To say nothing of how tone-deaf it is for someone to be saying my company's going to eliminate 50% of the jobs and my company is going to be the most valuable company in human history and you know how wonderful that's going to be and but 50% of you are going to lose your jobs." Instead, Altman points to a pattern that's played out before: "Jobs will go away. Jobs have gone away with every technological revolution. Jobs will change." To illustrate why productivity gains don't automatically translate to less work, he shares a conversation that stuck with him: "A thing someone said to me just yesterday that really stuck with me is I can use the new model GPT 5.5 in codex to accomplish in an hour what would have taken me weeks 2 years ago. And I thought I would have been much less busy in that world. Now you're doing work and I have never been busier in my life. I'm waking up in the middle of the night to do more work." Altman acknowledges the disruption ahead, but rejects the bleak version of the story: "I have no doubt that the economy is going to change a lot and jobs are going to change a lot and I think caution is warranted and I think rigorous debate about new social contracts, new economic systems are warranted as well. But I don't think it's like we're all going to sit around in a life without meaning and without work."
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Sam Altman on the most tone-deaf prediction being made by AI CEOs today: He pushes back on the gloomy predictions in the AI industry about mass unemployment. "I know some AI CEOs are saying things like 50% of the jobs are going to go away." Sam Altman finds this framing not just wrong, but tone-deaf: "To say nothing of how tone-deaf it is for someone to be saying my company's going to eliminate 50% of the jobs and my company is going to be the most valuable company in human history and you know how wonderful that's going to be and but 50% of you are going to lose your jobs." Instead, Altman points to a pattern that's played out before: "Jobs will go away. Jobs have gone away with every technological revolution. Jobs will change." To illustrate why productivity gains don't automatically translate to less work, he shares a conversation that stuck with him: "A thing someone said to me just yesterday that really stuck with me is I can use the new model GPT 5.5 in codex to accomplish in an hour what would have taken me weeks 2 years ago. And I thought I would have been much less busy in that world. Now you're doing work and I have never been busier in my life. I'm waking up in the middle of the night to do more work." Altman acknowledges the disruption ahead, but rejects the bleak version of the story: "I have no doubt that the economy is going to change a lot and jobs are going to change a lot and I think caution is warranted and I think rigorous debate about new social contracts, new economic systems are warranted as well. But I don't think it's like we're all going to sit around in a life without meaning and without work."

Big Brain AI

12,195 views • 3 months ago

Sam Altman said it straight in a CNBC interview: the companies adopting AI the most are hiring the most, and the ones doing layoffs are the ones adopting AI the least. This completely flips the narrative that AI is killing jobs. At the end of the day, AI is a productivity tool. Yes, some jobs will become redundant and obsolete, that is how it is for every technological revolution. But those who adopt quickly will have a higher chance of making it.
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Sam Altman said it straight in a CNBC interview: the companies adopting AI the most are hiring the most, and the ones doing layoffs are the ones adopting AI the least. This completely flips the narrative that AI is killing jobs. At the end of the day, AI is a productivity tool. Yes, some jobs will become redundant and obsolete, that is how it is for every technological revolution. But those who adopt quickly will have a higher chance of making it.

Lark Davis

16,253 views • 2 months ago

Sam Altman's new interview: AI should not be designed to pursue goals that are disconnected from human needs. People must remain at the center of AI development. “I have no interest in building a super-smart AI that accomplishes some non-human goals. People should react. People should say, ‘Hey, this is what I want, and this is what I do not want.’ I do not think the issue is that we have failed to explain the benefits. We say, ‘AI is going to cure a bunch of diseases,’ and people say, ‘Okay, that is great, but that is not really my question. My question is: What is my role in the future? What is my economic future? What is my agency? How do I know that my kids and my family will still be able to have fulfilling, creative expression, struggle, drive the world forward, grow, and do this thing together in a way that has worked for a long time?’ When people in AI say, ‘Sure, there are going to be no jobs,’ or ‘50% of jobs are going to go away,’ or ‘90% of jobs are going to go away,’ and ‘AI is going to be smarter than you at everything,’ and ‘We will give you some basic income, but you are not really going to have a role,’ that is horrible. And by the way, if an AI company says, ‘Maybe we are going to destroy all the jobs, and we will be the most valuable company in the world,’ people should look at you like, ‘Yeah, that is a terrible message.’ I do not think the problem is that we have not articulated the upsides. I think people actually believe us. They hear, ‘AI may cure your cancer,’ and they think, ‘That sounds great.’ I think we, as an industry, have failed to explain how people stay in control of determining the future at every step, and how people can still have a meaningful life in all the ways we care about.” ---- From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Sam Altman's new interview: AI should not be designed to pursue goals that are disconnected from human needs. People must remain at the center of AI development. “I have no interest in building a super-smart AI that accomplishes some non-human goals. People should react. People should say, ‘Hey, this is what I want, and this is what I do not want.’ I do not think the issue is that we have failed to explain the benefits. We say, ‘AI is going to cure a bunch of diseases,’ and people say, ‘Okay, that is great, but that is not really my question. My question is: What is my role in the future? What is my economic future? What is my agency? How do I know that my kids and my family will still be able to have fulfilling, creative expression, struggle, drive the world forward, grow, and do this thing together in a way that has worked for a long time?’ When people in AI say, ‘Sure, there are going to be no jobs,’ or ‘50% of jobs are going to go away,’ or ‘90% of jobs are going to go away,’ and ‘AI is going to be smarter than you at everything,’ and ‘We will give you some basic income, but you are not really going to have a role,’ that is horrible. And by the way, if an AI company says, ‘Maybe we are going to destroy all the jobs, and we will be the most valuable company in the world,’ people should look at you like, ‘Yeah, that is a terrible message.’ I do not think the problem is that we have not articulated the upsides. I think people actually believe us. They hear, ‘AI may cure your cancer,’ and they think, ‘That sounds great.’ I think we, as an industry, have failed to explain how people stay in control of determining the future at every step, and how people can still have a meaningful life in all the ways we care about.” ---- From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

Rohan Paul

79,111 views • 2 months ago

Andrew Yang says AI will create new jobs but will destroy millions “AI is going to create many new jobs that we cannot predict. Millions of Americans are going to lose their jobs to AI, both those statements are 100% true” “The issue in my mind is that many of the jobs that are gonna be created are gonna be for different people with different skills than the jobs that got eliminated, and the number of jobs eliminated will be many times higher” “The comparison I make for White Collar folks is when the internet came and did a number on local newspapers. Some people would say, oh, there’ll be new media jobs, which there were…” “But for every 10 local reporters that lost their jobs, maybe you had 3 that then worked at BuzzFeed and now BuzzFeed is disappearing too” “The numbers just don’t match up”
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Andrew Yang says AI will create new jobs but will destroy millions “AI is going to create many new jobs that we cannot predict. Millions of Americans are going to lose their jobs to AI, both those statements are 100% true” “The issue in my mind is that many of the jobs that are gonna be created are gonna be for different people with different skills than the jobs that got eliminated, and the number of jobs eliminated will be many times higher” “The comparison I make for White Collar folks is when the internet came and did a number on local newspapers. Some people would say, oh, there’ll be new media jobs, which there were…” “But for every 10 local reporters that lost their jobs, maybe you had 3 that then worked at BuzzFeed and now BuzzFeed is disappearing too” “The numbers just don’t match up”

Jack

70,446 views • 5 months ago

Sam Altman says "people will lose jobs" to AI and "not everyone's going to like all of the impacts, but this is coming. This is a scientific achievement of humanity that is going to get embedded in everything we do," per tsarnick.
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Sam Altman says "people will lose jobs" to AI and "not everyone's going to like all of the impacts, but this is coming. This is a scientific achievement of humanity that is going to get embedded in everything we do," per tsarnick.

unusual_whales

2,431,518 views • 1 year ago

Everyone is saying that AI is going to take all the jobs soon, but WHAT IF that's just not true? A new study shows that AI fails at 96% of all jobs. It raises serious questions about the high valuations we're seeing in AI. I made a video exploring the disconnect.
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Everyone is saying that AI is going to take all the jobs soon, but WHAT IF that's just not true? A new study shows that AI fails at 96% of all jobs. It raises serious questions about the high valuations we're seeing in AI. I made a video exploring the disconnect.

Dagogo Altraide (ColdFusion)

13,695 views • 6 months ago

Sam Altman just said the future of work won’t look like work At TreeHacks 2026, Sam Altman said something wild: Jobs in 100 years will be as unrecognizable to us as our jobs would be to people 300 years ago. AI will take over more and more operational work. And instead of obsessing over machines, humans may end up focusing more on each other. Which raises a bigger question: If AI does most of the work… do we even keep the concept of “jobs”? 👀
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Sam Altman just said the future of work won’t look like work At TreeHacks 2026, Sam Altman said something wild: Jobs in 100 years will be as unrecognizable to us as our jobs would be to people 300 years ago. AI will take over more and more operational work. And instead of obsessing over machines, humans may end up focusing more on each other. Which raises a bigger question: If AI does most of the work… do we even keep the concept of “jobs”? 👀

VraserX e/acc

15,367 views • 5 months ago

Sam Altman says the four hour work week isn't coming, even with AI: "Technology for a long time has been promising people that they’re going to work less and have all this leisure. And it has gone in that direction." "But somehow we never get the promise of the four hour workweek at mass scale in society. And I don’t expect AI to change that." "Clearly, society is not working for a lot of people, and more productivity gains that actually accrue to people would be a great thing. And I suspect they will. I suspect that will happen."
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Sam Altman says the four hour work week isn't coming, even with AI: "Technology for a long time has been promising people that they’re going to work less and have all this leisure. And it has gone in that direction." "But somehow we never get the promise of the four hour workweek at mass scale in society. And I don’t expect AI to change that." "Clearly, society is not working for a lot of people, and more productivity gains that actually accrue to people would be a great thing. And I suspect they will. I suspect that will happen."

dnap

195,978 views • 1 month ago

Steve Jobs was a great communicator of technology, and we could learn something from him today, in the context of AI. Sam Altman recently said, "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer." That's a fine quote. The abundance AI promises is super exciting. But Sam is saying that AI is going to figure out how to cure cancer. And if you've used these tools today, and talked to people who are at the labs, the reality is it's much more likely that humans will use AI to cure cancer. Steve might have said: "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, humans can use AI to cure cancer." Small tweak, but a big difference. Steve Jobs was not one to shy away from impressive specs and massive scale, but flipping the final line from "AI will cure cancer" to "Humans will use AI to cure cancer" makes all the difference. Apple under Steve Jobs put human centrality at the heart of everything they did. And we need that spirit to infuse how we communicate about AI today.
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Steve Jobs was a great communicator of technology, and we could learn something from him today, in the context of AI. Sam Altman recently said, "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer." That's a fine quote. The abundance AI promises is super exciting. But Sam is saying that AI is going to figure out how to cure cancer. And if you've used these tools today, and talked to people who are at the labs, the reality is it's much more likely that humans will use AI to cure cancer. Steve might have said: "If AI stays on the trajectory we think it will, then amazing things will be possible. Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, humans can use AI to cure cancer." Small tweak, but a big difference. Steve Jobs was not one to shy away from impressive specs and massive scale, but flipping the final line from "AI will cure cancer" to "Humans will use AI to cure cancer" makes all the difference. Apple under Steve Jobs put human centrality at the heart of everything they did. And we need that spirit to infuse how we communicate about AI today.

TBPN

21,828 views • 7 months ago

Marc Andreessen says AI is hyper democratizing. “Is the future of the world going to be one or a small number of companies, or for that matter, governments or super AIs that kind of own and control everything?” “Or is this a technology that's going to diffuse out and be in everybody's hands?” “This is the time in which AI is actually hyper democratizing. It has spread to more individuals, both in the country and around the world in the shortest period of time of any new technology I think in history.” “The best AIs in the world are in the consumer products.” “This technology is going to be in everybody's hands. And everybody is going to be able to use it to optimize the things that they do, have it be a thought partner, assistant for building companies.” Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
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Marc Andreessen says AI is hyper democratizing. “Is the future of the world going to be one or a small number of companies, or for that matter, governments or super AIs that kind of own and control everything?” “Or is this a technology that's going to diffuse out and be in everybody's hands?” “This is the time in which AI is actually hyper democratizing. It has spread to more individuals, both in the country and around the world in the shortest period of time of any new technology I think in history.” “The best AIs in the world are in the consumer products.” “This technology is going to be in everybody's hands. And everybody is going to be able to use it to optimize the things that they do, have it be a thought partner, assistant for building companies.” Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

a16z

79,935 views • 9 months ago

Alex Karp at Davos cuts through the AI jobs debate with something most people aren't prepared to hear. "One of the unfortunate things of the narrative in the west is it will destroy humanity's jobs — like you went to an elite school and you studied philosophy. Use myself as an example. That one is going to be hard to market." Karp points to workers building batteries in America, doing the same jobs as Japanese engineers, who went to high school rather than university. In his view, those are the people the AI economy will increasingly reward. "Those jobs are going to become more valuable. There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, especially those with vocational training." When pushed on whether this means fewer white collar jobs, he said yes. But his real point runs deeper than that. He brings up a former police officer who attended a junior college and now manages complex targeting operations for the U.S. Army at a global level. "That person actually is irreplaceable. And I think in the past, the way we tested for aptitude would not have fully exposed how irreplaceable that person's talents are." The old credentialing system was built to filter for degrees, not capability. AI is now exposing that gap. The people who will thrive are those who can be quickly upskilled, apply practical judgment, and work effectively alongside advanced systems. A philosophy graduate from a top university may still struggle to land their first role, while a vocational technician who adapts and grows with the technology becomes the person no company wants to lose. AI is accelerating that shift, and a university degree is no longer the deciding factor in who the economy values.
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Alex Karp at Davos cuts through the AI jobs debate with something most people aren't prepared to hear. "One of the unfortunate things of the narrative in the west is it will destroy humanity's jobs — like you went to an elite school and you studied philosophy. Use myself as an example. That one is going to be hard to market." Karp points to workers building batteries in America, doing the same jobs as Japanese engineers, who went to high school rather than university. In his view, those are the people the AI economy will increasingly reward. "Those jobs are going to become more valuable. There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, especially those with vocational training." When pushed on whether this means fewer white collar jobs, he said yes. But his real point runs deeper than that. He brings up a former police officer who attended a junior college and now manages complex targeting operations for the U.S. Army at a global level. "That person actually is irreplaceable. And I think in the past, the way we tested for aptitude would not have fully exposed how irreplaceable that person's talents are." The old credentialing system was built to filter for degrees, not capability. AI is now exposing that gap. The people who will thrive are those who can be quickly upskilled, apply practical judgment, and work effectively alongside advanced systems. A philosophy graduate from a top university may still struggle to land their first role, while a vocational technician who adapts and grows with the technology becomes the person no company wants to lose. AI is accelerating that shift, and a university degree is no longer the deciding factor in who the economy values.

Big Brain AI

39,113 views • 5 months ago

Jensen Huang just said this is the greatest era in history to build software. AI agents will not kill software. They will do the exact opposite: create a massive new wave of software demand. at NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 "Click and type. We now replace that with explaining to the AI what we want, our intent, and the AI generates the code or uses tools to produce the necessary output. This is how computers are going to work in the future. This is Agentic AI. For two years, we've been building toward this, and now it has arrived. One of the big breakthroughs, of course, is tool use. A lot of people have said, “Jensen, AI is coming. Agentic AI is coming. Therefore, all the software companies are going to go out of business.” This is exactly the opposite. Because there are going to be so many agents, the world is no longer limited by the number of people. Therefore, those agents are going to use more tools than ever. This is actually an incredible time to be a software company. But the software has to be presented to the agent in a way that the agent can use it. This is a big breakthrough. And in fact, what we have done, as you know, what Nvidia’s treasure..." ---- From 'NVIDIA' YT channel (link in comment)
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Jensen Huang just said this is the greatest era in history to build software. AI agents will not kill software. They will do the exact opposite: create a massive new wave of software demand. at NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 "Click and type. We now replace that with explaining to the AI what we want, our intent, and the AI generates the code or uses tools to produce the necessary output. This is how computers are going to work in the future. This is Agentic AI. For two years, we've been building toward this, and now it has arrived. One of the big breakthroughs, of course, is tool use. A lot of people have said, “Jensen, AI is coming. Agentic AI is coming. Therefore, all the software companies are going to go out of business.” This is exactly the opposite. Because there are going to be so many agents, the world is no longer limited by the number of people. Therefore, those agents are going to use more tools than ever. This is actually an incredible time to be a software company. But the software has to be presented to the agent in a way that the agent can use it. This is a big breakthrough. And in fact, what we have done, as you know, what Nvidia’s treasure..." ---- From 'NVIDIA' YT channel (link in comment)

Rohan Paul

16,584 views • 3 months ago

.Anthony Pompliano 🌪 is exactly right. while the scope of work of some jobs may suffer in the mid-term, entirely new categories of work are continuing to emerge. AI will ultimately create a lot more jobs than it displaces. and those displaced, in almost every case, will be evolutions of the same job.
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.Anthony Pompliano 🌪 is exactly right. while the scope of work of some jobs may suffer in the mid-term, entirely new categories of work are continuing to emerge. AI will ultimately create a lot more jobs than it displaces. and those displaced, in almost every case, will be evolutions of the same job.

Ali Ansari

20,304 views • 6 months ago

Sam Altman: "Very soon an AI will just be running for you in the background all the time" That entire model is on its way out. But the vision isn't the tell. This is: He says everyone's going to want "so much more of this AI infrastructure than we think." That's not a roadmap. That's a man admitting he can't build chips and power fast enough. The always-on assistant is the headline. The infrastructure bottleneck underneath it is the trade almost nobody is pricing in. That gap is the whole edge.
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Sam Altman: "Very soon an AI will just be running for you in the background all the time" That entire model is on its way out. But the vision isn't the tell. This is: He says everyone's going to want "so much more of this AI infrastructure than we think." That's not a roadmap. That's a man admitting he can't build chips and power fast enough. The always-on assistant is the headline. The infrastructure bottleneck underneath it is the trade almost nobody is pricing in. That gap is the whole edge.

plutos

25,689 views • 2 months ago

The man who built Nvidia from a Denny's booth into the world's first $5 trillion company just told us exactly why AI will never take our jobs. "AI has no possibility of doing all of what we do. However, depending on the jobs that we do, sometimes it could do 20% of our jobs, a thousand times better." "For some people, it might be able to do 50% of their job, a thousand times better." "Every one of us should apply AI to automate, to become an assistant, to help us with that either 20%, 40% or 50%." "People ask me, Jensen, is AI going to take your job? And I tell them absolutely not. The person who uses AI to automate that 20% or 50% is going to take your job." PS. If you found value in this post make sure to like and repost this tweet + follow Uncover AI to stay updated with the latest AI news. See you in the next one:
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The man who built Nvidia from a Denny's booth into the world's first $5 trillion company just told us exactly why AI will never take our jobs. "AI has no possibility of doing all of what we do. However, depending on the jobs that we do, sometimes it could do 20% of our jobs, a thousand times better." "For some people, it might be able to do 50% of their job, a thousand times better." "Every one of us should apply AI to automate, to become an assistant, to help us with that either 20%, 40% or 50%." "People ask me, Jensen, is AI going to take your job? And I tell them absolutely not. The person who uses AI to automate that 20% or 50% is going to take your job." PS. If you found value in this post make sure to like and repost this tweet + follow Uncover AI to stay updated with the latest AI news. See you in the next one:

Uncover AI

16,813 views • 3 months ago

Goldman Sachs just published the list of jobs AI will eliminate first. 300 million jobs globally. 25% of all US work hours. And that's not in 10 years, it's starting NOW. Highest risk of displacement according to Goldman: 1. Computer programmers 2. Accountants 3. Auditors 4. Legal assistants 5. Administrative assistants 6. Customer service reps 7. Telemarketers 8. Proofreaders 9. Copy editors 10. Credit analysts. 46% of all office and administrative tasks can be automated. 44% of legal work. 37% of architecture and engineering. 36% of science. 35% of business and finance. These aren't warehouse jobs. These aren't factory floor positions. These are the careers parents told their kids to pursue. "Go to college. Get a degree. Get a desk job. You'll be safe." Goldman Sachs just told you that desk is getting emptied. And the data is already showing up in real time: Tech employment as a share of the US economy has dropped below its long-term trend for the first time since records began. Marketing consulting, graphic design, office administration, and call centers are all seeing employment growth fall below trend. Younger workers are getting hit first and hardest. Goldman's lead economist said it directly: "The big story in 2026 in labor will be AI." But here's what the report doesn't mention: Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investors in the companies BUILDING the AI that eliminates these jobs. They underwrote OpenAI's funding rounds. They're advising on the $700 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year. They profit from every merger, every capex deal, every stock offering tied to AI. The same bank telling you 300 million jobs are at risk is making billions helping the companies that will take them. And the corporate playbook is already locked in: Meta is firing 16,000 people. 20% of its entire workforce. While doubling AI spending to $135 billion. Stock went up 3% on the announcement. Block fired 40% of its staff. Stock surged 24%. Atlassian cut 10%. Same pattern. Over 61,000 AI-linked layoffs since November. 764 people per day losing their jobs in tech alone. Every single time a company announces mass layoffs and says "AI," the stock price goes up. Wall Street has created a system where firing humans is the most profitable announcement a CEO can make. Goldman's report says the jobs most PROTECTED from AI are air traffic controllers, chief executives, radiologists, pharmacists, and members of the clergy. Notice who's safe? The people at the top and the people praying. Everyone in the middle is exposed. The entry-level white-collar worker who spent four years and $200,000 on a degree is now competing against software that works 24/7, never takes vacation, never asks for a raise, and improves every single week. Goldman even admits younger workers in their 20s and 30s entering knowledge and content creation sectors will be "most affected." The generation that was told AI would make their lives better is the one getting displaced by it first. And it gets even WORSE: Goldman says if this displacement happens faster than their 10 year base case, the economic impact "could be much larger." Basically: if companies move fast, which they already are, the fallout will be worse than their projections. They're already moving fast. $700 billion in AI infrastructure this year. Mass layoffs at every major tech company. Stock prices rewarding every single one. The report is 50 pages of data telling you exactly what's coming. Most people won't read past the headline. But you just did.
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Goldman Sachs just published the list of jobs AI will eliminate first. 300 million jobs globally. 25% of all US work hours. And that's not in 10 years, it's starting NOW. Highest risk of displacement according to Goldman: 1. Computer programmers 2. Accountants 3. Auditors 4. Legal assistants 5. Administrative assistants 6. Customer service reps 7. Telemarketers 8. Proofreaders 9. Copy editors 10. Credit analysts. 46% of all office and administrative tasks can be automated. 44% of legal work. 37% of architecture and engineering. 36% of science. 35% of business and finance. These aren't warehouse jobs. These aren't factory floor positions. These are the careers parents told their kids to pursue. "Go to college. Get a degree. Get a desk job. You'll be safe." Goldman Sachs just told you that desk is getting emptied. And the data is already showing up in real time: Tech employment as a share of the US economy has dropped below its long-term trend for the first time since records began. Marketing consulting, graphic design, office administration, and call centers are all seeing employment growth fall below trend. Younger workers are getting hit first and hardest. Goldman's lead economist said it directly: "The big story in 2026 in labor will be AI." But here's what the report doesn't mention: Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investors in the companies BUILDING the AI that eliminates these jobs. They underwrote OpenAI's funding rounds. They're advising on the $700 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year. They profit from every merger, every capex deal, every stock offering tied to AI. The same bank telling you 300 million jobs are at risk is making billions helping the companies that will take them. And the corporate playbook is already locked in: Meta is firing 16,000 people. 20% of its entire workforce. While doubling AI spending to $135 billion. Stock went up 3% on the announcement. Block fired 40% of its staff. Stock surged 24%. Atlassian cut 10%. Same pattern. Over 61,000 AI-linked layoffs since November. 764 people per day losing their jobs in tech alone. Every single time a company announces mass layoffs and says "AI," the stock price goes up. Wall Street has created a system where firing humans is the most profitable announcement a CEO can make. Goldman's report says the jobs most PROTECTED from AI are air traffic controllers, chief executives, radiologists, pharmacists, and members of the clergy. Notice who's safe? The people at the top and the people praying. Everyone in the middle is exposed. The entry-level white-collar worker who spent four years and $200,000 on a degree is now competing against software that works 24/7, never takes vacation, never asks for a raise, and improves every single week. Goldman even admits younger workers in their 20s and 30s entering knowledge and content creation sectors will be "most affected." The generation that was told AI would make their lives better is the one getting displaced by it first. And it gets even WORSE: Goldman says if this displacement happens faster than their 10 year base case, the economic impact "could be much larger." Basically: if companies move fast, which they already are, the fallout will be worse than their projections. They're already moving fast. $700 billion in AI infrastructure this year. Mass layoffs at every major tech company. Stock prices rewarding every single one. The report is 50 pages of data telling you exactly what's coming. Most people won't read past the headline. But you just did.

Ricardo

235,712 views • 5 months ago

David Friedberg: The AI Jobs Panic Is a Crock of Sh*t Why? The revenue potential outweighs the cost savings by 100x. “There is no job loss with AI. I've said it a thousand times, and I will say it again, and again, and again. What I see on the ground, and what I've seen at dozens of companies, including my company that I run, there are two sides to a business. There is revenue and there’s costs. On the cost side of the equation, AI can be used to reduce humans doing things that cost money, to some extent. The effect there, I would argue, is nominal. The real opportunity with AI is on the revenue side, where suddenly one engineer can do 100x or 1000x what they used to be able to do, meaning you can make more products at your company, whether those are agricultural seed products, or boats and ships, or software for companies, or clothing, or what have you. Because of AI, everyone has the ability to expand their revenue base to create more products, and that is the foundation of good economic prosperity. It is called productivity. We can grow productivity in this country with AI. So where I see AI being used is on the revenue side 100x more than the cost side. And in that equation, people are hiring like crazy. We cannot hire enough people. I just had a review meeting with my product and engineering team two days ago, and they're like, ‘We want to add an extra 15 headcount to our engineering squads because we have all this opportunity to do stuff that we couldn't otherwise do.’ So we are going to hire more people. And to Sacks' point, we are seeing that show up in the jobs numbers. The idea that AI is going to destroy jobs is a Luddite idea that is being disproven every single day, and I see it on the ground. It is only a matter of time before people wake up to this and they realize that this narrative that they've all been sold is a crock of sh*t.”
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David Friedberg: The AI Jobs Panic Is a Crock of Sh*t Why? The revenue potential outweighs the cost savings by 100x. “There is no job loss with AI. I've said it a thousand times, and I will say it again, and again, and again. What I see on the ground, and what I've seen at dozens of companies, including my company that I run, there are two sides to a business. There is revenue and there’s costs. On the cost side of the equation, AI can be used to reduce humans doing things that cost money, to some extent. The effect there, I would argue, is nominal. The real opportunity with AI is on the revenue side, where suddenly one engineer can do 100x or 1000x what they used to be able to do, meaning you can make more products at your company, whether those are agricultural seed products, or boats and ships, or software for companies, or clothing, or what have you. Because of AI, everyone has the ability to expand their revenue base to create more products, and that is the foundation of good economic prosperity. It is called productivity. We can grow productivity in this country with AI. So where I see AI being used is on the revenue side 100x more than the cost side. And in that equation, people are hiring like crazy. We cannot hire enough people. I just had a review meeting with my product and engineering team two days ago, and they're like, ‘We want to add an extra 15 headcount to our engineering squads because we have all this opportunity to do stuff that we couldn't otherwise do.’ So we are going to hire more people. And to Sacks' point, we are seeing that show up in the jobs numbers. The idea that AI is going to destroy jobs is a Luddite idea that is being disproven every single day, and I see it on the ground. It is only a matter of time before people wake up to this and they realize that this narrative that they've all been sold is a crock of sh*t.”

The All-In Podcast

152,399 views • 2 months ago

Researchers found that D.C., Maryland, and Virginia are among the places where AI has some of the highest potential to either wipe out or transform jobs. In Maryland, researchers estimate nearly 40% of the workforce is in occupations where AI can do the job. D.C. ranks even higher, with more than 55% of workers in jobs threatened by AI. MORE:
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Researchers found that D.C., Maryland, and Virginia are among the places where AI has some of the highest potential to either wipe out or transform jobs. In Maryland, researchers estimate nearly 40% of the workforce is in occupations where AI can do the job. D.C. ranks even higher, with more than 55% of workers in jobs threatened by AI. MORE:

7News DC

37,834 views • 3 months ago