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The AI Warnings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Bosses are using the specter of artificial intelligence to strike the fear of God into their employees.
It portrays a boss becoming more comfortable telling his employees How Things Are and What Must Be Done, at least right up until the part about what happens after everyone makes the effort to “figure out” artificial intelligence: “AI will totally change Shopify, our work, and the rest of our lives. AI anxiety is epidemic in the economy, driven both by startling advances in tools that hundreds of millions of people can try for themselves and predictions by industry figures that massive disruptions are imminent. These AI memos — as well as similar texts from our very own government — should be understood less as examples of candid real talk than as disciplinary messages, or even threats, made by CEOs who are quite happy with the current balance of power in the labor market and who see a possibility, just over the horizon, that it might be sustainable forever: The future is coming, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.
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