The "AI Job Apocalypse" is CANCELLED!

So when it comes to AI, there were things that we were divided about.

Is it gonna kill us all? Maybe.

We don't know.

We're not sure.

We're, we're divided.

And the text, music, and images it produces, is it a slop, or is it beautiful and good? Again, who knows? We're divided.

But there's one thing that we knew was gonna happen beyond a shadow of a doubt.

It was gonna take everybody's job, right? Job apocalypse.

No job for you and all that.

I, myself, I have to say, I was convinced that this was gonna happen.

How could automation not take jobs? So I, and I assume many of you, I spun up a literal army of AI agents and created workflows and automations to try to reduce just the sheer amount of stuff that I have to do, and it worked, and I would not trade it for anything.

But here's the thing.

I don't find myself doing less work.

I find myself doing more.

So of course, we've heard this message from Silicon Valley going back several years now.

AI is coming for knowledge work.

Sam Altman warned that whole job categories are about to disappear.

Dario Amodei said it's gonna be a bloodbath, a white collar bloodbath specifically.

Elon Musk said that UBI will be necessary, perhaps even not just a universal basic income, but universal high income.

But just recently, and rather seemingly rapidly, that message is changing.

Both Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are softening their message about this job apocalypse, about becoming the permanent underclass, and some people are saying, well, it's because they're gonna do their IPO soon.

Both SpaceX AI and Anthropic and OpenAI are gonna be becoming publicly traded companies, and so they're changing their message.

So let's dive into it and see exactly what's happening.

Why is the story beginning to change? All right, so Sam Altman recently talked at the Bank of Australia conference in Sydney.

By the way, I've never been to Australia, but one of the funniest things that I've heard about Australia is there was this children's cartoon, Peppa the Pig, I think it's out of the UK, and one of the episodes talked about how spiders are harmless.

So when it comes to AI, there were things that we were divided about.

Is it gonna kill us all? Maybe.

We don't know.

We're not sure.

We're, we're divided.

And the text, music, and images it produces, is it a slop, or is it beautiful and good? Again, who knows? We're divided.

But there's one thing that we knew was gonna happen beyond a shadow of a doubt.

It was gonna take everybody's job, right? Job apocalypse.

No job for you and all that.

I, myself, I have to say, I was convinced that this was gonna happen.

How could automation not take jobs? So I, and I assume many of you, I spun up a literal army of AI agents and created workflows and automations to try to reduce just the sheer amount of stuff that I have to do, and it worked, and I would not trade it for anything.

But here's the thing.

I don't find myself doing less work.

I find myself doing more.

So of course, we've heard this message from Silicon Valley going back several years now.

AI is coming for knowledge work.

Sam Altman warned that whole job categories are about to disappear.

Dario Amodei said it's gonna be a bloodbath, a white collar bloodbath specifically.

Elon Musk said that UBI will be necessary, perhaps even not just a universal basic income, but universal high income.

But just recently, and rather seemingly rapidly, that message is changing.

Both Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are softening their message about this job apocalypse, about becoming the permanent underclass, and some people are saying, well, it's because they're gonna do their IPO soon.

Both SpaceX AI and Anthropic and OpenAI are gonna be becoming publicly traded companies, and so they're changing their message.

So let's dive into it and see exactly what's happening.

Why is the story beginning to change? All right, so Sam Altman recently talked at the Bank of Australia conference in Sydney.

By the way, I've never been to Australia, but one of the funniest things that I've heard about Australia is there was this children's cartoon, Peppa the Pig, I think it's out of the UK, and one of the episodes talked about how spiders are harmless.