Mo Gawdat, formerly Google [X]’s chief business officer and now founder of Emma.love, an “AI love coach” (yep, for real!) joins the chorus of people proclaiming that AI will come for your job – point in case:
He and two other software experts built the app with the help of AI, a project that would have required “350 developers in the past,” he said.
With all due respect, I have a very hard time taking someone seriously who claims, well, this… Meanwhile, and just to be clear, AI does have some impact on the world of work – coming for the ones who are building it:
AI might be coming for our jobs, but capitalist pressures appear to be coming for the people responsible for developing AI. Wired reported over 200 people working on Google’s AI products, including its chatbot Gemini and the AI Overviews it displays in search results, were recently laid off—joining the ranks of unfortunate former employees of xAI and Meta, who have also been victims of “restructuring” as companies that poured billions of dollars into AI development are trying to figure out how to make that money back.
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