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Understanding the real threat generative AI poses to our jobs

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Hello, and welcome back to Blood in the Machine: The Newsletter. (As opposed to Blood in the Machine: The Book.) It’s a one-man publication that covers big tech, labor, and AI. It’s all free and public, but if you find this sort of independent tech journalism and criticism valuable, and you’re able, I’d be thrilled if you’d help back the project. Enough about all that; grab your hammers, onwards, and thanks for reading. Upgrade to paid According to Elon Musk, AI is about to take everyone’s jobs. Soon, “probably none of us will have a job,” the tech billionaire said at a recent tech conference in Paris. “If you want to do a job that’s kinda like a hobby, you can do a job. But otherwise, AI and the robots will provide any goods and services that you want.” This is conventional wisdom among many Silicon Valley honchos — the week before Musk made his comment, Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called godfather of artificial intelligence and former Google Brain employee, said he’s worried that AI will

Hello, and welcome back to Blood in the Machine: The Newsletter. (As opposed to Blood in the Machine: The Book.) It’s a one-man publication that covers big tech, labor, and AI. It’s all free and public, but if you find this sort of independent tech journalism and criticism valuable, and you’re able, I’d be thrilled if you’d help back the project. Enough about all that; grab your hammers, onwards, and thanks for reading. According to Elon Musk, AI is about to take everyone’s jobs. Soon, “probably none of us will have a job,” the tech billionaire said at a recent tech conference in Paris. “If…

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