AI Job Replacement: MIT's 12% Warning and Big Tech's New Power Plays

MIT Says AI Can Steal Your Job? Yeah, and I'm Next in Line for King of England

Alright, so MIT dropped a report saying AI can now do almost 12% of US jobs. 12 freakin' percent. That's their number, anyway. You know what I say? I say give it a year, maybe two, and it'll be closer to 50. And who's gonna be surprised?

The Robots Are Coming for Your Cubicle

This whole "digital twin of the U.S. labor market" thing sounds like something straight out of a bad sci-fi movie. Prasanna Balaprakash, some director at Oak Ridge, is quoted as saying this thing reveals "how AI reshapes tasks, skills and labor flows long before those changes show up in the real economy." Translation: They're running simulations to figure out how to fire you faster.

They're saying it's not a "prediction," just a "technical capability." Oh, right, like that makes it any better. It's like saying "I could punch you in the face, but I'm not promising anything." Give me a break.

And it's not just coders anymore, oh no. Now it's finance, healthcare, even lawyers and accountants are in the crosshairs. White-collar jobs, the ones we thought were safe. Guess what? Nothing's safe.

I mean, I get it. Companies wanna save money. They'll replace us with algorithms if they could. But what happens when nobody has any money to buy their crap anymore? Do these geniuses at MIT even think about that?

The "Upside" (Yeah, Right)

Of course, they trot out the usual "AI exposure didn't lead to broad net job losses" line. Okay, so far. But what about tomorrow? What about when AI gets really good? It ain't gonna be a slow burn, people. It's gonna be a freakin' ice age.

And these states – Tennessee, North Carolina, Utah – are using this Iceberg Index to "inform state-level AI workforce action plans." So, basically, they're planning for the unemploymentpocalypse. Great.

Here's the thing that gets me: we're spending all this time and money developing AI, but nobody seems to have a freakin' clue what to do with the millions of people it's gonna displace. Retrain them? For what? To do other jobs that AI will eventually take over? It's a hamster wheel of despair.

I saw something about Alibaba launching new AI glasses. Fancy. But what are people going to use them for when they're all unemployed? To order cheaper ramen?

Offcourse, the article mentions that Fortune used AI to help draft the article. Ironic, ain't it? MIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce

Then again, maybe I'm just being a grumpy old man here. Maybe AI will usher in a new era of prosperity and leisure for all. Maybe pigs will fly.

Or maybe, just maybe, we're all screwed.

So, What's the Real Endgame Here?

Look, I'm not a Luddite. I ain't saying we should smash all the computers. But let's be real: this whole AI thing is being driven by greed and short-sightedness. Nobody's thinking about the long-term consequences, the human cost. And that, my friends, is a recipe for disaster.