Tom Slater
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 May
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And a job is composed of multiple tasks.
Now, AI will replace humans doing some of those tasks.
That is inevitable.
But it's like, what's your worth as a human worker?
It depends what you've let AI do to your mind.
But I think that to your inequality point, if you take the example of Meta, the owners of Facebook,
It was last summer that they went through this hiring spree, their superintelligence, their AI systems unit.
And the rumors were that they were paying individuals hundreds of millions of dollars to come and do this.
And the rationale was that you're spending billions of dollars on these systems.
What you want is a small group of engineers who can really keep that whole system in their head.
And even if you're paying them hundreds of millions of dollars, that sort of is dwarfed by the amount that you're spending on the hardware.
Within that company, you suddenly get this big discrepancy, this big inequality between those small number of individuals and the engineers across the rest of the firm.
But what you also see is that in other parts of the business, you're reducing the number of people because you're getting efficiency from using these tools.
And so you're laying off people.
And you go from this world where there was greater equality in the workforce and what people were getting paid to suddenly you're paying people hundreds of millions of dollars and firing people at the same time.
and you get that within a single company but then you start to get that across companies which are the ones that have been able to adopt these tools and embrace them and win competitively and so you get the inequality between companies and then it's between countries as well because whose whose ai are we using in in the uk we're mostly using ai systems from the us and from from china
And cheap power then becomes another really important factor in that.
And we have very expensive power.
So you can see these fault lines of inequality widening rapidly.
I think that's a real risk.
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