Hayden Field

They've seen even software engineering jobs, the one job that they thought was kind of safe, start to be automated.

And, you know, they've also seen...

companies promise that they're not going to do any replacement of creative types of tools and jobs.

And they turn right around and, you know, Anthropic just released cloud design where you can, you know, design anything or, you know, other companies have released really similar products.

We've seen a ton of stuff that's been trained on artists' work.

So, yeah, I mean, I think people just know better, honestly.

The number one thing that comes up when I'm out and about in the world, even on the bachelorette party I was at last weekend, it's AI and is it going to take our jobs and is it going to replace all of us?

Yep.

You know, that's the main thing on people's minds.

An AI company CEO saying, oh, that's not going to happen is definitely not going to convince people.

Even in Sam Allman's latest blog post, he wrote about universal prosperity and we want a future where everyone can have an excellent life.

That's what he says.

You know, and it's just...

Of course, there's not any details about that, you know, and when in the world have we ever introduced like a really powerful new innovation that has not made kind of the wealth gap wider?

There's just, you know, I think people are kind of over it at this point and they want to know what we're going to do to kind of

deal with the fallout of this rather than, oh, everything's fine, let's be ostriches and put our heads in the sand.

I hope that's the right metaphor.

But yeah, Jasmine Sun wrote an op-ed in the New York Times called Silicon Valley is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass.

This week.

And, you know, she spent three months talking to people all over in a ton of different industries, whether they were like, you know, tech leaders or just, you know, people, you know, in entry level jobs in different sectors.