I wish I could know if the people at OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and other leading AI companies truly believe this. Personally, I have not seen anything that points to AI taking Jobs. Useful yes, has the same competency as a person, not even close. "I know, really hot take"

So It's either worse case, they are actively lying to increase their investments rolling in, increasing their stock.

I also wonder if It's less evil than that, where they do believe it but are in the big tech sphere and are just so disconnected to how non-tech companies work.

I work in the insurance industry, and to remove people means every task they do would need an "AI layer to it" because as we know there is no LLM that is great at every task. More AI layers mean more points for error.

And there is no job here where It's okay to be confidently incorrect 1-5% of the time.

I'm in my mid 20s and semi grew up on the old internet, what was the point where tech companies become so James Bond villianish. I got into it because of the passionate people in the industry. I know they're still there, but I feel like old tech companies oozed enthusiasm and passion.

Even before AI one had to admit that productivity was rising. So the number of jobs would decline (when productivity rises you need less people to do whatever things). And so UBI was already in the minds and, I guess, will just become more and more relevant as time goes by.