Jasmine Sun

And this actually freaked me out more.

It was because it wasn't just that people had these bleak predictions about what was going to happen to the economy and to workers, but that they were flipping their tune as soon as I turned on the mic and asked them to go on the record.

And I noticed this happened with multiple people.

Some people wouldn't go on the record at all.

And one person, like a high powered venture capitalist told me, a lot of my executives are telling me that they want to lay off their workers with AI.

But to be honest, Jasmine, I don't think they're going to talk to you for their peace, for your peace, because they don't want to be the bad guys.

They know that they're going to get backlash for saying that.

And so I feel really frustrated when people say things like, you know, Dario is just trying to do marketing and hype for his company.

And the reason that he's predicting these crazy things is that he doesn't actually believe it.

It's just marketing.

I'm like, hey, he does actually believe that.

I feel pretty certain he actually believes it.

That doesn't mean he's correct about the way it's going to play out, but he at least believes he is correct.

And second of all, it makes him look worse.

It makes people more anti-AI when he says that.

So it doesn't make sense as a marketing strategy.

And then third of all, the vast majority of AI leaders, researchers, and executives who hold the exact same belief as Dario are not willing to say it out loud because they don't want to be the one targeted for laying off their workers with AI or for building the worker replacing technology.

And so I actually do think that the belief that there will be at minimum mass job displacement or a near-term disruption is super, super common.

I think people differ on like, will there be jobs in the far off future?

Like the permanent underclass belief is more niche, the idea that everyone is permanently screwed.