For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them

"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them

#AI #aipocalypse #capitalism #jobs #labor

For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained

^{Ed Newton-Rex (The Guardian)}

Reminder: Do not cross the picket line!

"Thousands of Amazon workers are expected to protest or strike in more than 20 countries during Black Friday to press for better workers’ rights and climate action from the US retailer."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/25/amazon-protest-strike-black-friday

#amazon #labor #workers #WorkersRights #protest #strike #BlackFriday #CyberMonday

Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday

Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis

^{Julia Kollewe (The Guardian)}

One of our laid off #union members created this #comic, reporting their experience yesterday. It is a bittersweet but amazing wrap up of what many have experienced.

#1u #layoff #layoffs #LaborDay #labor #CodeForAmerica

This is why I said fuck: it was announced internally but instead of engaging in union bargaining, upper leadership decided to do this https://codeforamerica.org/news/moment-of-change-on-our-journey/

#labor #union

A moment of change on Code for America’s journey — Code for America

We’re seeing a clearer picture of what’s ahead for us in civic tech, and the potential for what is possible has never been greater.

^{Code for America}