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I... uh... I think I wrote a manifesto.
While Ed hates the environmental cost of generative AI, and the fact that it’s decimating the labor market (not because it can do anything, but because idiot CEOs think that it can, or because it’s a useful smokescreen for outsourcing and layoffs), he’s open to a world in which none of those things are true, and GenAI is actually good, and isn’t harmful. But let’s suppose that Mark Benioff isn’t just a bloated, bloviating idiot that looks like a cross between Jurassic Park’s Dennis Nedry and a mafia lawyer, and that we are actually careening to a nightmare world where AI agents start to dominate the workforce. I can’t imagine it’s mentally healthy to have a job where your role involves barking orders at AI models in a chat window — and where you don’t need to show empathy, or exercise consideration, because your colleagues aren’t human.
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