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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HatWearingFool" data-source="post: 9861770" data-attributes="member: 54658">I think anyone that works in software/tech has been in multiple meetings where they were basically told they will be replaced in the not to distant future.We just aren’t used to it, but threatening people that they can be/will be easily replaced by someone who will do it cheaper has been a mainstay of capitalism for quite a while. Don’t unionize or we’ll move the jobs, take the pay cut or we’ll just fire you and replace you with someone cheaper, or if you won’t work the over time we’ll find someone who will.The tactic has just moved up the skill chain and high skilled employees are shocked because they didn’t think it would happen to them.I think it was Goldman Sacks that was in the journal last week talking about how in 5 years all their financial analysts would be replaced by AI and it’s only going to take that long because they need to replace their internal software with software that allows AI agents to do the jobs. Basically telling thousands of high paid people they should prepare to be unemployed within 5 years.Also from the journal:“Anthropic safety researcher Mrinank Sharma said this week that he was leaving the company to explore a poetry degree, writing in a letter to colleagues that the “world is in peril” from AI, among other dangers. Last month, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19062?mod=ANLink" target="_blank">he published a paper</a> that found that advanced AI tools can disempower users and distort their sense of reality. Anthropic says it is grateful for Sharon’s work”That’s like the third companys’ human safety officer that has basically quit to write poetry in the wilderness after staring into the abyss.</blockquote>

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