Comment by joshcsimmons
6 days ago
This is both horrible and not at all surprising.
Every quarter there are more layoffs and we're told how AI will replace us and that we can do nothing to stop it. We cannot afford the simple things our parents were able to and are supposed to be grateful that we are living in a time with such "amazing" technological progress.
Sam is one of the most media-visible people that represents AI replacement of average people's livelihood (not agreeing with this stance but yes, outside of the Hacker News SF-tech matcha latte bubble, this is a commonly held thought) which makes this unsurprising.
Still horrible and not right.
Sam and related spend half their lives on TV poking the bear laughing about how he is going to use his tech to ruin peoples lives and there is nothing they can do about it. Some of those people have nothing to lose.
Jesus can’t believe I have to white-knight Altman here, but can you point a single video or interview where any of the AI CEOs have been “laughing about how he is going to use his tech to ruin peoples lives.”
This is the exact kind of poisonous, plausible-sounding but false and inflammatory rhetoric that is escalating things.
Can you point to me the amount of time and money they've spent lobbying Congress for an economic bill of rights for citizens? Or bills guaranteeing health care and basic food and living for all people?
The masses see an incredibly small number of people making huge amounts of money, and gaining massive political influence, by developing technologies they intend to use to replace almost all human economic worth. And they are doing very little if anything to show concern for the fates of the millions of people that may be put out of work.
I see this different than the discovery of oil or electricity or the Internet. It's bigger than that, and they are telling us to remain calm in a burning building while they walk toward the exits.
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-sam-altman
When one is telling farriers that most of them are going to lose their jobs, one might want to try to at least mimic more compassion.