It's easy to frame AI layoffs as something being done by “them” to “us”, but the piece is more interesting because it admits that many knowledge workers helped sell the exact doctrine now being applied to them.
Though I must add the most important line, for me, was about losing the apprenticeship system that produces judgment. That is the part companies may only notice after the cuts: you can automate output, but you cannot easily rebuild experience, trust and institutional memory once they are gone.
Exactly, and as long as everything was advancing and we had good jobs, we help sell the notion and narrative that new technology is always good for society, going back to the PC and internet and before. Minimize the guardrails.The market and capitalism will sort it out was the message. Now the chickens are coming home to roost, as my late mom used to say.
A sharp and honest read.
It's easy to frame AI layoffs as something being done by “them” to “us”, but the piece is more interesting because it admits that many knowledge workers helped sell the exact doctrine now being applied to them.
Though I must add the most important line, for me, was about losing the apprenticeship system that produces judgment. That is the part companies may only notice after the cuts: you can automate output, but you cannot easily rebuild experience, trust and institutional memory once they are gone.
Exactly, and as long as everything was advancing and we had good jobs, we help sell the notion and narrative that new technology is always good for society, going back to the PC and internet and before. Minimize the guardrails.The market and capitalism will sort it out was the message. Now the chickens are coming home to roost, as my late mom used to say.
Good point about the apprenticeships
Well said
Thanks Judi!
To believe AI will work out good means one is brain washed. And that's being nice to one.
Glad to hear from you. Just had death in my house so really having hard time