"We've all been lied to!"
Former Google X Chief Business Officer Mo Gaudet shocked the audience in his latest podcast.
When the host mentioned some executives touting the claim that "AI will create new jobs," the tech veteran slammed the table and declared, "That's complete bullshit!" The AI company he founded offered irrefutable evidence—developing the eponymous app required a team of only three people, while the same product traditionally required 350 engineers toiling around the clock.
These figures, like a sharp knife, pierce the carefully woven fairy tale of the tech world. Gaudet shares Bill Gates's view: AI will consume the vast majority of human jobs, starting with the most basic, entry-level positions. Even more breathtaking, he predicted that when artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrives, even the CEO throne will be shaken: "AGI will crush humans in every dimension, and incompetent executives will be the first to be eliminated."
Reality is bearing out this grim prediction. Dario Amodei, CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, has echoed his warning in the job market: entry-level white-collar jobs are being decimated by AI.
As the class of 2024 floods job fairs with their resumes, they face a battlefield many times tougher than their predecessors—entry-level positions that once accommodated newcomers are being decimated by algorithms.
But a strange glint gleamed in Gaudet's eyes: "Humans weren't meant to work 20 hours a day!" He suddenly ripped open the veil of the capitalist world: "Take work as your life's goal? That's the lie of the century!"
When Microsoft engineers use AI to automate weekly reports, and when consultants rely on GPT to generate analytical frameworks, the "work-life balance" portrayed by tech media Windows Central seems within reach. But can these optimized young people truly enjoy this leisure time?
In Silicon Valley labs, AGI is evolving faster than even the most radical predictions. No longer content with crunching spreadsheet data, it's now dabbling in business decision-making, product design, and even team management.
When boards discover that algorithms can predict market trends more accurately than human CEOs, and when investors perceive the soaring returns from AI-driven decisions, the defenses of the top office will ultimately crumble.
This tsunami of unemployment cuts across all ranks. Entry-level positions will be the first to be hit, plunging into a bubble. Middle managers will vanish en masse amidst process automation, and eventually, even the executives in charge of layoffs will be replaced by even more ruthless algorithms.
We stand at a historical turning point—when machines can potentially support humanity, the concept of "work," once deified by capitalism, is being redefined.
When survival no longer depends on physical labor, what is the true meaning of your existence?
It's time to break free from the shackles of the "production machine."
Artists are revisiting their brushes through AI-powered painting, educators are focusing on spiritual growth alongside intelligent teaching assistants, and community volunteers are multiplying as they escape the pressures of survival.
Perhaps what Gundam exposed was not only the lie about employment, but also an opportunity to awaken mankind: when machines take over the guarantee of survival, we can finally exist purely as "human beings".
