David Hoffman

And to your point, like a basic psychological principle is like if you thwart any individual human's goals, what are they going to do?

They're going to lash out.

Yeah.

You back someone into a dog into a corner and they have no choice but to bite.

And I think with wealth inequality, you have a growing number of people who probably feel something like that is like I just.

I don't know how to improve my circumstance.

And then here we have like a new like wave of technology.

And you have the CEOs, the leaders of that technology really not doing themselves any favors.

Like Sam Altman and Dario are both like, yeah, we're going to like do what mass job wipeout and it's going to be sick.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's that stat that like 80 percent of American the American labor force is like one unexpected medical bill away from like poverty.

And when you hear like Sam Altman say that, oh, yeah, there's going to be a painful transition.

Well, that counts as an unexpected medical bill, a painful transition.

And so this is probably making things feel a little bit too real or threatening to the average worker.

I want to know what you think.

Either people like Sam Altman or Dario, the leaders, and then also people at these companies, what they think publicly versus what they think privately.

Like there's kind of like maybe there's a gap between on mic versus on mic.

This is a quote from your article in the New York Times.

Tech industry sources expressed more extreme concern about the labor market impacts of AI in private conversation, but suddenly became optimist once I turned on the microphone.