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Axel Springer’s A.I. Edict
At a global town hall, Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner delivered a blunt message—A.I. is here, and every employee must use it.
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2025 UPDATE!! CHI Creates 1st UBI FUND! AMZN MSFT slash jobs!! Altman: AI to be "uncomfortable”…33% jobs gone…BASIC INCOME? Are you PREPARED???
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Companies are lying about how much AI is driving layoffs.
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1/37
@MorePerfectUS
A fully mask off moment.
[Quoted tweet]
"AI doesn't go on strike. It doesn't ask for a pay raise." trib.al/7kYM2R8
2/37
@G_Commish
AI will fire him too… he doesn’t get it
3/37
@Saqib_hmed
This is so dystopian...and It's already here!
4/37
@NeedleStrat
Danger close.
5/37
@DjOmegaMVP
Some people are going to be pretty shocked what labour costs are when they realise all the AI they replaced their labour with is in fact organised, and organised by a profit seeking company.
6/37
@calessira
"i've laid off employees myself because of AI." if i say what i want to say i will be sent to jail
7/37
@DjOmegaMVP
"Hi, I'm a POS CEO who doesn't care about my employees."
8/37
@ProfessorXofTex
Yeah, we’re cooked
9/37
@Rahll
We should start treating CEOs like spittoons.
10/37
@StopAI_Info
Everyone must protest, strike and nonviolently mobilize to stop the loss of jobs, and every other problem AI causes. Our next protest at the OpenAI offices at 1455 3rd St, San Francisco. It's on Friday, August 22nd, & the 4th Friday of every month
Next Stop AI Protest at OpenAI · Luma
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@sky_and_sunshin
Then there’s no need for a single work visa again
12/37
@adom936
Isn’t this what was expected?? Robotics and Ai gonna replace a lot of the working class
13/37
@StephenSeanFord
AI (for the most part) will only make the dumb dumber and the rich richer.
14/37
@seankelly014
do they not realize unemployed people will have more time to build guillotines?
15/37
@ChoZ3nWon
What's the issue?
16/37
@degenutz
But it works both ways. The same tech they’re using to replace workers is now arming workers to replace them. AI has removed old barriers. You don’t need permission, funding or credentials to build anymore. One person with the right tools can do what used to take a team.
17/37
@parella_anthony
This is insanity.
18/37
@indietronicaone
“We ruined someone’s career and forced them to find another job from companies also firing with AI to make a few extra bucks. AI is a guilt-free slave!
”
19/37
@Psychonaut1001
I understand the short-to-mid term human suffering this will cause but I am ultimately always going to be pro-automation.
Superfluous labour should be automated away to allow as much free-time/leisure as possible - And a redistribution of labour to those fields where automation is not yet viable to ‘lighten the load’
20/37
@the_yanco
Shut down AI/AGI development, or die.
There is No other choice.
21/37
@Wizenedb49119
Hope you get laid off by the board, buddy. Obviously, you are 'irreplacable."
22/37
@HeadBand42
If it were up to you freaks we would still have humans farming with hand tools.
23/37
@Empireenjoyer11
Unions rip American taxpayers off and inflate costs of living.
24/37
@birdtankie
What should the proletarian response to this be?
If our jobs are going to be automated, we must be forward-thinking, not backwards-looking. We need to collectively demand a drastic reduction in the work week.
Make automation work for us, not the CEOs and shareholders!
25/37
@cupcakekitty09
It doesn’t necessarily get things right. It doesn’t care. Neither do CEOs.
26/37
@ThePowerWoker
“AI doesn’t ask for a pay raise” is very funny. Anyone familiar with the Adobe Creative Cloud bullshytuation could tell you that once these things have their hooks in deep enough and investors start demanding real returns then the price is going to spike astronomically
27/37
@jesse_jett
From ‘DSAI’:
28/37
@therealgamerg
A new luigi variant has been created.
29/37
@Glover756
Someone needs to invent an Ai kill switch.
30/37
@tiefighter19921
Great. Finally every single working age person in America can be a CEO
31/37
@ProfBreen587
When nobody can afford their services because nobody has a job, the government will bail the companies out before the citizens.
32/37
@mkazin
It also doesn't buy products and services that create profits which make capitalism exist
33/37
@AncientEnn
AI should replace CEOs
34/37
@FandomSocialist
"Once they were conditioned and bound together, the Crowns became the perfect workforce. They did not rebel, for they could not speak. They could not leave, for they were chained. And best of all, Crowns were incapable of forming unions."
35/37
@OnyxAurelius
“AI doesn’t ask for a pay raise” CEO bros are gonna be in shambles when AI service providers hike their fees as adoption increases.
36/37
@DerekBets83
What happens when AI replace CEOs?
37/37
@gammarayghoul
AI is an enemy
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@MorePerfectUS
A fully mask off moment.
[Quoted tweet]
"AI doesn't go on strike. It doesn't ask for a pay raise." trib.al/7kYM2R8
2/37
@G_Commish
AI will fire him too… he doesn’t get it
3/37
@Saqib_hmed
This is so dystopian...and It's already here!
4/37
@NeedleStrat
Danger close.
5/37
@DjOmegaMVP
Some people are going to be pretty shocked what labour costs are when they realise all the AI they replaced their labour with is in fact organised, and organised by a profit seeking company.
6/37
@calessira
"i've laid off employees myself because of AI." if i say what i want to say i will be sent to jail
7/37
@DjOmegaMVP
"Hi, I'm a POS CEO who doesn't care about my employees."
8/37
@ProfessorXofTex
Yeah, we’re cooked
9/37
@Rahll
We should start treating CEOs like spittoons.
10/37
@StopAI_Info
Everyone must protest, strike and nonviolently mobilize to stop the loss of jobs, and every other problem AI causes. Our next protest at the OpenAI offices at 1455 3rd St, San Francisco. It's on Friday, August 22nd, & the 4th Friday of every month
Next Stop AI Protest at OpenAI · Luma
11/37
@sky_and_sunshin
Then there’s no need for a single work visa again
12/37
@adom936
Isn’t this what was expected?? Robotics and Ai gonna replace a lot of the working class
13/37
@StephenSeanFord
AI (for the most part) will only make the dumb dumber and the rich richer.
14/37
@seankelly014
do they not realize unemployed people will have more time to build guillotines?
15/37
@ChoZ3nWon
What's the issue?
16/37
@degenutz
But it works both ways. The same tech they’re using to replace workers is now arming workers to replace them. AI has removed old barriers. You don’t need permission, funding or credentials to build anymore. One person with the right tools can do what used to take a team.
17/37
@parella_anthony
This is insanity.
18/37
@indietronicaone
“We ruined someone’s career and forced them to find another job from companies also firing with AI to make a few extra bucks. AI is a guilt-free slave!
”19/37
@Psychonaut1001
I understand the short-to-mid term human suffering this will cause but I am ultimately always going to be pro-automation.
Superfluous labour should be automated away to allow as much free-time/leisure as possible - And a redistribution of labour to those fields where automation is not yet viable to ‘lighten the load’
20/37
@the_yanco
Shut down AI/AGI development, or die.
There is No other choice.
21/37
@Wizenedb49119
Hope you get laid off by the board, buddy. Obviously, you are 'irreplacable."
22/37
@HeadBand42
If it were up to you freaks we would still have humans farming with hand tools.
23/37
@Empireenjoyer11
Unions rip American taxpayers off and inflate costs of living.
24/37
@birdtankie
What should the proletarian response to this be?
If our jobs are going to be automated, we must be forward-thinking, not backwards-looking. We need to collectively demand a drastic reduction in the work week.
Make automation work for us, not the CEOs and shareholders!
25/37
@cupcakekitty09
It doesn’t necessarily get things right. It doesn’t care. Neither do CEOs.
26/37
@ThePowerWoker
“AI doesn’t ask for a pay raise” is very funny. Anyone familiar with the Adobe Creative Cloud bullshytuation could tell you that once these things have their hooks in deep enough and investors start demanding real returns then the price is going to spike astronomically
27/37
@jesse_jett
From ‘DSAI’:
28/37
@therealgamerg
A new luigi variant has been created.
29/37
@Glover756
Someone needs to invent an Ai kill switch.
30/37
@tiefighter19921
Great. Finally every single working age person in America can be a CEO
31/37
@ProfBreen587
When nobody can afford their services because nobody has a job, the government will bail the companies out before the citizens.
32/37
@mkazin
It also doesn't buy products and services that create profits which make capitalism exist
33/37
@AncientEnn
AI should replace CEOs
34/37
@FandomSocialist
"Once they were conditioned and bound together, the Crowns became the perfect workforce. They did not rebel, for they could not speak. They could not leave, for they were chained. And best of all, Crowns were incapable of forming unions."
35/37
@OnyxAurelius
“AI doesn’t ask for a pay raise” CEO bros are gonna be in shambles when AI service providers hike their fees as adoption increases.
36/37
@DerekBets83
What happens when AI replace CEOs?
37/37
@gammarayghoul
AI is an enemy
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Yaboysix
That nikka
... somebody explain to me how A.I could potentially"blackmail" me? Lol
a,i as a tool or some sort of sentient a.i?
either way your data or the data of someone you care about could be compromised and used to induce you to act in some way.
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Yaboysix
That nikka
Oh ok
I was thinking A.i was gonna Tell people my Porn Bookmarks. I would just Deny it.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Oh ok
I was thinking A.i was gonna Tell people my Porn Bookmarks. I would just Deny it.
This is going to happen one day and the internet will never be the same afterwards.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy who sent shockwaves with AI means fewer jobs stance, says: Having AI do a lot of the coding for us … allows employees to… - Times of India
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has shifted his stance on AI's impact, now emphasizing its potential to enhance employee roles by automating routine tasks. This contrasts with earlier warnings of job displacement. Jassy highlighted AI's current role in coding, customer service, and business process...
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We literally watched the demise of programming in this thread.
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AI is leading to thousands of job losses, report finds
The advent of AI in the workplace is one factor behind a spike in layoffs this year, new labor data shows.
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Michigan program giving expectant mothers $7,500
DeuceZ
Li pitit gason
AI is now taking orders at the fast food drive-thru
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AI could widen the wealth gap and wipe out entry-level jobs, expert says
August 5, 20254:08 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
By
Steve Inskeep
,
Nia Dumas
A photo taken on January 2, 2025 shows the letters AI for Artificial Intelligence on a laptop screen (R) next to the logo of the Chat AI application on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Artificial Intelligence continues to grow, forcing companies to find a way to close the gap between innovation and preparation.
Companies have begun integrating AI into their day-to-day operations. Some employers are concerned that this will lead to a complete elimination of their roles within companies.
In a previous Morning Edition video interview, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg raised concerns that America is not prepared for the economic downsides of artificial intelligence.
"The economic implications are the ones that I think could be the most disruptive, the most quickly. We're talking about whole categories of jobs, where — not in 30 or 40 years, but in three or four — half of the entry-level jobs might not be there. It will be a bit like what I lived through as a kid in the industrial Midwest when trade in automation sucked away a lot of the auto jobs in the nineties — but ten times, maybe a hundred times more disruptive," Buttigieg said.
Erik Brynjolfsson, senior fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, told Morning Edition that coding, software engineering and call centers are the jobs that are likely to experience the most change.
Most industries are leaning toward the direction of automation, Brynjolfsson explains.
But there are things that artificial intelligence can't do. Therefore, future jobs may rely on more human skills like communication and creativity — areas where AI can assist but not replace.
"I do think that interacting with humans face-to-face is something that a lot of people prefer — that's something that by definition can only be done by other humans," Brynjolfsson said.
He also warns that while AI can generate wealth, he worries that it will only deepen the divide between those who form technology and those it will displace.
Brynjolfsson spoke to NPR's Steve Inskeep about the urgent areas that need to be addressed when integrating new technologies into the workforce such as job displacement, the need for more human-centered skills and widening the gap of economic inequality.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity
Interview highlights
Steve Inskeep: First, is Pete Buttigieg right to raise this concern about the very near future?
Erik Brynjolfsson: Yeah, he's spot on. We are seeing enormous advances in core technology and very little attention is being paid to how we can adapt our economy and be ready for those changes.
Inskeep: What are the jobs that are going away partly or entirely?
Brynjolfsson: There's transition in both directions. There are jobs that are disappearing, and there are new jobs being created. Some of the jobs that are changing the most are in coding, software engineering and in call centers — which I've studied. And in those areas, we're already beginning to see some effects, especially on entry level jobs.
Inskeep: I'm also thinking of an auto factory that I visited earlier this year in China. They had some human employees, but robots were doing an awful lot of the work, and I would imagine robots might do more and more of it.
Brynjolfsson: I visited one of those factories over in Shenzhen and I saw the same thing. They're all going to trend in the direction of more automation — that's just more cost-effective. And the people at the factories were telling me it leads to better quality and more consistency as well.
Inskeep: Well, that can be. But of course, there's also the dislocation. So let's focus on that for a second. Pete Buttigieg made that comparison to the industrial Midwest where there were entire communities that were devastated. Could we see that kind of effect?
Brynjolfsson: I think it's a very apt analogy. The ideal thing is that you find ways of compensating people and managing a transition. Sad to say, with trade, we didn't do a very good job of that. A lot of people got left behind. It would be a catastrophe if we made the similar mistake with technology, [which] that also is going to create enormous amounts of wealth, but it's not going to affect everyone evenly. And we have to make sure that people manage that transition.
Inskeep: How would we shape our future in a more positive way?
Brynjolfsson: The first thing a lot of economists, including me, would go to is worker retraining and understanding what are the kinds of skills and tasks that are going to become more important going forward: a lot of interpersonal skills, a lot of management skills. I think as we create these agents, we're all going to become CEOs of our own little fleet of agents. Learning those management skills that apply not just to humans, but increasingly to agents, is something that can be taught. If we each have our own fleet of agents, then we can each be more productive.
Inskeep: You better explain what an agent is for people who aren't familiar.
Brynjolfsson: AI — we are all using LLMs (Large Language Models) increasingly and using them to give us bits of text back to us and give us some advice. Agents is taking that one step further where the large language model doesn't simply give us some text back, but actually takes an action. It goes ahead and makes an airline reservation or buys something for us or carries out some other tasks.
Inskeep: I want to add a note of skepticism about retraining. I understand broadly why it would be a good idea. But I think about the industrial Midwest in the way that people talk about job retraining as old industrial jobs went away. Some of the effects of that included job retraining programs — which sound good but didn't really help people very much — an emphasis on education — which sounds great — but maybe it just increased the price and the demand for education and not everybody ended up with a very fruitful job on the other end. This is hard.
Brynjolfsson: It's hard. There's still a wage premium for people who are more educated versus less educated. And it doesn't necessarily mean retraining to do more of the same. It's often moving in to do new industries — new kinds of tasks. I do think that interacting with humans face to face is something that a lot of people prefer. That's something that by definition can only be done by other humans.
Inskeep: I'm wondering if we have the wrong emphasis on education. We've been trying so hard to bring up STEM fields. Some of those jobs can be replaced. Maybe we should have been emphasizing more of the liberal arts which deal with humanity.
Brynjolfsson: I think it's a "both/and." I absolutely do think there could be a revenge of a lot of humanity's tasks, and there may be opportunities there for more creative, artistic, interpersonal work. At the same time, there are huge premiums for certain kinds of engineering, math, science and coding. You may have seen some of the outsized salaries they're being offered to people who are really good at creating AI.
Inskeep: Yeah, absolutely true. Do you worry that the creative jobs could go away, too? I think about the movie industry, where there's already been a lot of tension and conflict about the idea that maybe you don't even need the actor to be there — the AI can make it up.
Brynjolfsson: It's amazing what's happening in that industry. That's a place where the jobs are going to change a lot. I do think there will be opportunities. For people like you and me to make our own fun little movies I've been using Chat GPT to write poems to my wife and songs that I couldn't have done previously. Maybe next year I'll be making movies.
Inskeep: Somebody's going to be listening and saying, "Wait a minute. You asked ChatGPT to write a poem to your wife?"
Brynjolfsson: Full disclosure, I did tell her where it came from, but somehow she still appreciated it.
Inskeep:: You seem basically optimistic. Is there something that keeps you up at night?
Brynjolfsson: Oh, definitely. I'm optimistic about the potential to create a lot more wealth and productivity. I think we're going to have much higher productivity growth. At the same time, there's no guarantee all that wealth and productivity is going to be evenly shared. We are investing so much in driving the capabilities for hundreds of billions of dollars and we're investing very little in thinking about how we make sure that leads to widely shared prosperity. That should be the agenda for the next few years.
This story was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.