[ath3nd]

> Ultimately, we seem to be headed toward a future where we spend an extraordinary chunk of our economy on data centers and AI infrastructure

When climate-disaster-induced fires or tornadoes or tsunamis hit the data centers, I like to think that we'd like to spend a bigger chunk of our economy on food and housing. But who cares four us plebs if Sam Altman finally gets an (AI) girlfriend.

> Employers are testing replacements for workers, not just systems to augment them

That's a tale as old as time. One has to hope that capitalists would cling to oppressing humans out of habit and nostalgia and still employ us. Because, as we know from all modern economy books, if one is not in gainful employment, they are useless to society. We always have the "sell your blood" option until AGI invents cheap synthetic 3 printed blood, which, if you trust people like Elon, should happen aaany moment now.

After all, making an AI work overtime to create shareholder value has to be less satisfactory to the current Amazon RTO-policy makers than forcing real humans be stuck in traffic for no gain on productivity.

[bediger4000]

I think you've hit on something in your last sentence. At least until CEOs figure out that managers, too, are superfluous without human underlings to boss around, they'll miss the thrill of forcing employees to do things those employees hate and resent.