42,000 Tech Layoffs in 2024 Already - AI is the cause - Deny, Downplay, Distract [Propaganda]
Summary
TLDR2024年は、わずか2ヶ月でアメリカのテック業界で42,000人のレイオフが発生し、前年には190,000の職が失われたことから、驚くべき年となりつつあります。企業はパンデミック中の過剰採用やリモートワークへの批判を理由に挙げていますが、主要な原因はAIの導入による人件費削減です。将来的には、従業員を持たないユニコーン企業が出現するとの見解も示されています。この動向は、労働市場と雇用の新時代への移行を示唆しており、ポスト労働経済への移行や、オープンソースのAI技術の重要性が強調されています。また、労働力の代替としてAIの役割が増大する中で、現在の経済パラダイムの限界と、それに対する潜在的な解決策についても議論されています。
Takeaways
- 📉 2024年のアメリカでは、3月1日までに42,000人のテック関連の職が失われた。
- 🔍 前年はテックスペースで190,000の仕事が失われたとのデータがある。
- 🤖 企業は人員削減の主な理由としてAIの導入を挙げている。人間の従業員よりもコストがかからず、効率が良いとされる。
- 🚀 サム・アルトマンは、将来的に従業員を持たないユニコーン企業が出現すると予測している。
- 📊 レイオフや職の自動化は、特定の職務ではなく、職務の一部をAIが代替する形で進行している。
- 🌐 ポスト労働経済に関する議論が高まっており、現在の労働市場と消費者需要に基づく経済パラダイムの再考が求められている。
- 🚫 一部の億万長者は、ベーシックインカム実験の禁止を推進していることが明らかにされた。
- 🏝 マーク・ザッカーバーグはハワイに総額270億円以上の施設を構築しており、その中にはバンカーも含まれている。
- 🔓 マーク・ザッカーバーグはAIのオープンソース化を支持し、メタはAIを製品ポートフォリオの一部として位置づけている。
- 💡 オープンソースのAIは、民主的なアクセスと安全性の向上に寄与するとされている。
Q & A
2024年にアメリカで発生したテクノロジー業界の解雇件数はいくつですか?
-2024年の最初の2ヶ月で42,000件の解雇がありました。
前年のテクノロジー業界での仕事の損失はどのくらいでしたか?
-前年は約190,000の仕事が失われました。
企業が過剰な採用を行ったと述べている理由は何ですか?
-企業はパンデミック中に誤って多くの人を雇ったと述べていますが、これには批判もあります。
AIによる解雇が増えている主な理由は何ですか?
-人間の従業員はコストがかかり、AIによる自動化によって効率化が進んでいます。
「最高の部品は無い部品」という原則を提唱したのは誰ですか?
-この原則はイーロン・マスクによって提唱されました。
将来、従業員を持たないユニコーン企業が出現すると予想されていますか?
-はい、将来的には従業員を持たない数十億ドル規模のユニコーン企業が出現すると予想されています。
労働市場と雇用の新時代について、どのような変化が予想されますか?
-AIと自動化の進展により、従業員の必要性が減少し、労働市場が大きく変化することが予想されます。
雇用の現行パラダイムが破綻する可能性がある失業率の範囲は何ですか?
-20%から100%の間の失業率で現行パラダイムが破綻する可能性があります。
ベーシックインカム実験の禁止を支持する億万長者のロビー団体が存在しますか?
-はい、ベーシックインカム実験の禁止を支持する億万長者のロビー団体が存在します。
マーク・ザッカーバーグがAGIをオープンソースにすべきだと述べた理由は何ですか?
-AGIをオープンソースにすることで、AIがより安価で、製品がより良く、安全になると彼は述べています。
Outlines
😮 Over 42,000 tech layoffs in the US already this year
Paragraph 1 discusses the recent trend of significant layoffs in the tech industry, attributing it largely to companies replacing human employees with AI to save costs. It references over 42,000 US tech layoffs so far in 2024 and 190,000 tech job losses in 2023.
😠 Billionaires trying to block basic income experiments
Paragraph 2 talks about the paradigm shift that will be required as AI and automation lead to widespread unemployment. It then highlights an alarming report that billionaire lobby groups are trying to ban basic income experiments in some states.
🔐 Zuckerberg's $270 million bunker in Hawaii
Paragraph 3 notes that Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is building a $270 million bunker compound in Hawaii, speculating on the ominous signals this could send. It then discusses Zuckerberg's recent comments advocating for open source AI.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡テック業界の解雇
💡AIによる影響
💡雇用と労働市場の新時代
💡ポスト労働経済
💡ユニバーサルベーシックインカム(UBI)
💡AIの民主化
💡オープンソース
💡テクノロジーによる変革
💡労働市場の変化
💡消費者需要
Highlights
2024年にはこれまでに42,000人のテクノロジー関連のレイオフがあった
人間の従業員は高コストで、AIに置き換えられつつある
完全にAI駆動のユニコーン企業が近い将来現れる可能性がある
レイオフはパラダイムシフトをもたらし、ポスト労働の経済モデルが必要
一部の富裕層がベーシックインカムの実験に反対している
マーク・ザッカーバーグがハワイに2億7000万ドルのコンパウンドを建設
マーク・ザッカーバーグはAGIをオープンソースにする必要があると主張
Transcripts
2024 is shaping up to be a rather
shocking year now I'm not going to lean
into the shocking and stunning but what
I am here is to uh prevent or present
some data rather some data and numbers
and facts and figures so I want to start
off this with uh just this number that I
saw there have been 42,000 Tech layoffs
so far in America in 2024 and it's only
just March first at the date of
recording so in 2 months we've had
42,000 layoffs now somewhere in the
numbers I saw that there was something
like
190,000 jobs lost last year uh in the
tech space and so the question is like
okay well why is this happening one of
the things that that companies have said
oh well we we accidentally hired too
many people during the pandemic and that
may or may not be true there's a lot of
criticism of remote work and those sorts
of things and of course there was also
like you know pay payroll protection
programs so maybe they deliberately over
over hired to get some government
funding and now they're laying people
off but as I have been talking about for
a long time it's primarily due to AI so
headcount reduction is the name of the
game humans are expensive to employ it
takes six months for a human uh employee
to come up to speed um they require
benefits they might sue you uh and if
you do lay them off then there's all
sorts of requirements um in terms of
giving them benefits and Severance and
those sorts of things and so the best
employee is no employee and this is
borrowing from Elon musk's uh the best
part is no part principle and so what
we're going to see is we're entering
into a new era of employment and labor
markets where the best employee is no
employee so you might have heard uh Sam
Alman I think it was a tweet or an
interview where he said that he
anticipates in the next few years you're
going to see the first billion doll
unicorn company with no employees and
only a you know a founder or a
co-founder uh basically a pair of guys
or one guy making all the software and
all the platforms just with AI now the
flip side of that is no employees and so
some people on out on the internet are
saying you know CEOs are the first to go
CEOs are the last to go I think it's
going to be a little bit of both in many
cases AI can probably run companies
better than CEOs uh certainly than some
human CEOs that I've known in my time um
but in other cases CEOs are going to be
the only employee and it's going to be
the sole proprietor and so this article
from Fortune talks about how a uh AI is
like corporate OIC it trims the fat and
you keep the fact that you're using it a
secret now this is something that I've
been saying as well for a while so I'm
good to see that there's someone who's
more of a market Insider and more of a
uh kind of an expert in the field and so
people have asked me like what's what's
the Paradigm here what's the trend and
if you remember during the pandemic and
and even before during the 2008
recession there's kind of this pattern
that happened and it's deny deny deny so
first you deny that anything is
happening and then it's downplay
downplay downplay you say it's not that
bad and then once people say okay it is
happening it is that bad you say
distract distract distract you do you
use misdirection and then finally you
say well it's here to say and maybe it's
actually a good thing and so there's
this kind of four-phase cycle that
happens whenever there's any uh major
change out there and this stuff has been
well documented um you know Edward beray
is the the the Godfather of uh of
propaganda he started this back in what
the 30s he was the the the nephew of um
of Sigman Freud and then of course n
Chomsky and others have written
extensively about this um necessary
Illusions and Manufacturing consent um
so this is this is the way the game is
played and like it it's rather formulaic
um and so if you if you ever watch like
a politician or a CEO or whatever when
someone asks about AI layoffs and they
just change the subject that's the like
you know smoke and mirrors like pay no
attention to the man behind the curtains
so AI is coming AI is causing layoffs
it's causing headcount reduction now in
many cases it's not necessarily going to
be AI is going to come and do your job
specifically it's going to do parts of
your job it's going to streamline and
operationalize it and so a really good
example of this was the replacement of
telephone operators it wasn't that we
needed a robot to come and do the exact
job of a telephone operator it was
actually a bunch of technologies that
just subverted the even the need for a
telephone operator and so what we're
seeing out there in the job space is
that the need for your job just goes
away and you get the legs cut out from
underneath you because all the functions
of your job are either completely
supplanted by new platforms or new
services that the company can sign up
for so that's really what's happening
and that's what's coming down the
pipeline and the numbers are starting to
back it up now many of you will ask okay
so what do we do about this I have been
a big I've been beating the drum on post
labor economics which is basically we
need to come up with not just not just a
an ution of the current paradigms
because this uh replacement of Labor is
fundamentally Paradigm breaking uh and
what I mean by that is the current
Paradigm basically says you need to have
a job the entire economy runs on
consumer demand and labor markets and
free market theory about you know
capital goods and services and then
consumers and workplaces and those sorts
of things but if we are all going to be
losing our jobs or even if most people
lose their jobs even if only we end up
with 30% unemployment the current
Paradigm cannot bear that so if we end
up anywhere between 20% and 80% or 100%
unemployment the current Paradigm fails
now this article popped up and I don't
know how much how much legs this has um
because it's kind of a it's kind of a
Backwater you know smaller periodical
but it was really kind of alarming when
I saw this come across my radar the
billion the billionaire fuel lobbying
group behind the state bills to ban
basic income experiments so there are
some activist billionaires out there
basically wanting to say hey we don't
want anyone to even try Ubi experiments
and one of the reasons that they give is
basically that if you if you do this you
disincentivize work uh you
disincentivize uh people from innovating
from taking you know entrepreneurial
leaps and you also uh upend the labor
market now that is all true if you give
people enough money to be comfortable
you know some I think someone said like
was Universal generous income or
whatever like UI is kind of what some
people are talking about if you remove
the need for people to work yes a lot of
people will check out of the out of the
economy permanently except for their
consumer demand consumer demand will
always drive the economy I talked about
this in several other videos where I
talked about all humans have basic needs
food housing clothing entertainment and
the desire our intrinsic desire for
those needs can still run the economy
consumer demand is is relatively
permanent however this is an example of
the old Paradigm trying to reassert
itself this is something that I've
predicted where the old guard will
double down on the status quo and do
everything that they can to maintain the
current status quo at all costs
including inflicting pain on a lot of
people because again billionaires and
politicians are insulated from the lived
experience of people having to work two
and three jobs in order to make ends
meet now speaking of billionaires you
might have heard that Mark Zuckerberg
has a $100 million Compound on Hawaii
and actually reading this article given
the land cost the total cost of his
compound is expected to be somewhere
north of $270 million but it also
includes a 5,000 ft bunker complete with
uh Food Supplies and and internal power
so why is one of the world's richest
Tech billionaires who's leading the
charge of artificial general
intelligence building a bunker on an
island in the middle of the of the
Pacific now it could just be a Boyhood
fantasy um it could be that he's hedging
his bets but it is a little bit um let's
just say say unsettling and he's also
not the only billionaire prepper uh Sam
mman has has a prepper Ranch somewhere
in the midwest I think where he's got
stock piles of guns um and food and ammo
uh I'm sure Elon Musk has a bailout
strategy as well uh but anyways so I
wanted to point this out uh before
winding down this video so on the topic
of Mark Zuckerberg and meta and Facebook
and all that I did mention that uh Mark
Zuckerberg is talking about how AGI is
going to be open source and so this is
something that I have advocated for a
lot is that AGI should be open sourced
in fact I ran a poll uh just yesterday
where most of you are in agreement that
AG or maybe it was a few days ago
anyways AGI should be open source and
Mark Zuckerberg actually uh explained on
this call I actually listen to some of
it where he explained in in very clear
terms that they're not an AI provider
not in the same way that open Ai and
Microsoft and Google are positioning
themselves to be but rather AI is just
part of their portfolio of products so
whether it's the metaverse or whatever
else uh or gaming uh you know those
sorts of things AI is just going to
augment the products that they have and
so they they don't really care AI is
just a utility and open- Source AI will
make that cheaper for them and and it
will also make their products better and
safer that's of course what he's arguing
now as a tech billionaire you know take
it with a grain of salt as to what his
actual motives are but he does have some
good points and do happen to agree with
at least the words that he's saying if
not you know whatever hidden agendas
that he has is that open source is
structurally one of the biggest things
that we can do to ensure that AI is one
democratically accessible and also safe
because then it can be scrutinized by
everyone and it's not just the models
that should be open source it's also the
data sets used to train these models
should also be open source now obviously
in the Paradigm that we have today where
there's private property and property
rights there will always be some closed
source and there will probably also
always be some open source so the
landscape is going to be a hybrid
landscape of a little bit of both now
what's the optimal I don't know what the
optimal is and of course as some people
will say well you wouldn't open source
the plans to make nuclear weapons you
wouldn't open source the plans to make a
global plague that is also true but as
we stage the release of these AI
Technologies you can also use fire to
fight fire and so what I mean by that is
you going to have AGI enabled firewalls
we're going to have AGI enabled data
center security we're going to have AGI
enabled whatever you know antivirus and
so it's going to be a natural escalation
in the technology space but this is
nothing new I've talked to some cyber
Security Experts both in my patreon and
in other places um and they say like
yeah it's going to change some things
it's not going to change others the
fundamental so one one interesting thing
that I learned is that yes AI can help
write viruses but the fundamental
science around computer viruses won't
they don't really expect it to change
that much at least not yet of course
time will tell it could be that we learn
something new especially with you know
qar and Quantum Computing and that sort
of thing but in the meantime it is good
that there is at least one Tech
billionaire who is on the side of Open
Source and I hope that there are more
that will join in terms of this
conversation because if you remember
last year all of the all of the
Congressional hearings where you know
Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Alman and others
were dragged in front of Congress Mark
Zuckerberg was the only one who said
like open source is the way whether it
was IBM or Microsoft or Google they're
just like no we want to keep it closed
Source but again this has to do with
profit motive meta is not an AI company
Google Microsoft and open Ai and IBM
they are kind of more of the raw compute
uh place and you also see Microsoft and
Nvidia hedging their Bets with open
source models U anyways so I mean a lot
of these companies they're they're kind
of playing the field and seeing where
it's going to go anyways I thought this
was interesting information and there's
a little bit of data to kind of back up
some of the stuff that I've been saying
so thanks for watching I hope you got a
lot out of this uh yeah let me know you
think in the comments cheers
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