42,000 Tech Layoffs in 2024 Already - AI is the cause - Deny, Downplay, Distract [Propaganda]

Summary

2024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

00:00

😮 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.

05:01

😠 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.

10:02

🔐 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.

Keywords

💡テック業界の解雇

2024年にアメリカで発生した42,000件のテック業界の解雇を指します。これは、パンデミック中に過剰採用が行われた後、企業が人員削減を行っている現象を示しています。この数字は、労働市場における大きな変動を示唆しており、AI技術の導入による効率化とコスト削減が背景にあると解釈されています。

💡AIによる影響

AI（人工知能）は、仕事の自動化と効率化を進める主要な技術です。ビデオでは、AIによる人員削減が主なトピックの一つとして取り上げられ、労働市場への影響が議論されています。具体的には、AIによって人間の従業員よりもコストが低く、リスクが少ないため、企業が人員を削減する傾向があると説明されています。

💡雇用と労働市場の新時代

テクノロジー、特にAIの進化により、従来の雇用形態や労働市場が変化していることを指します。ビデオでは、将来的には「最良の従業員は従業員がいないこと」であり、企業が完全に自動化され、僅かな創設者や共同創設者だけが管理する可能性があることを示唆しています。

💡ポスト労働経済

労働が主要な経済活動ではなくなり、消費者需要や自動化技術が経済の主要なドライバーになる将来の経済モデルを指します。ビデオでは、AIによる労働の置き換えが現在の経済パラダイムを根本的に変化させるため、新たな経済理論の必要性が議論されています。

💡ユニバーサルベーシックインカム（UBI）

すべての市民に無条件で定額の金銭を提供する政策です。ビデオでは、AI技術による雇用の変化に対応する一つの解決策としてUBIが提案されていますが、一部の富裕層によるUBI実験の禁止を求める動きもあることが指摘されています。

💡AIの民主化

AI技術の普及とアクセスの容易さを指し、ビデオではAGI（一般人工知能）がオープンソース化されるべきであるという議論がされています。これにより、AI技術がより安全で、広く利用可能になり、民主的にアクセスできるようになるとされています。

💡オープンソース

ソフトウェアのソースコードが公開され、誰でも自由に利用、修正、配布できるようにするライセンスモデルです。ビデオでは、AGIを含むAI技術のオープンソース化が、技術の安全性と普及を促進する方法として推奨されています。

💡テクノロジーによる変革

テクノロジー、特にAIの発展が社会や経済に大きな変化をもたらしているプロセスを指します。ビデオでは、この変革が従来の雇用形態や経済構造を根本的に変える可能性があると論じられています。

💡労働市場の変化

経済活動の変化、技術の進化によって労働市場の需要と供給が変化している状況を指します。ビデオでは、AIによる自動化が労働市場に大きな影響を与え、従来の雇用形態が変わりつつあることが強調されています。

💡消費者需要

市場における商品やサービスに対する需要のことです。ビデオでは、労働が経済の主要なドライバーではなくなる可能性があるものの、消費者需要は経済活動を維持するために依然として重要であると論じられています。

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