Shopify CEO: AI is the perfect scapegoat for mass layoffs

Categories: VC, Startup

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#ai #agi #machinelearning

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AI's going to be blamed for absolutely everything. It's the perfect scapegoat. It's the perfect deterrent and scapegoat for everything, right? Like it's like it can't fight back. In fact, you can beautifully find communities which I think are entirely wrong, but like various people who are talking very eloquently about the dangers of AI even past jobs. And like it's like my industry has been gaslighting everyone into AI fear and like sci-fi has done it for the 60 years before that, too. And so, I don't even know who's like supposed to be on AI's side. It's just like incredible. objectively like mind-blowingly make my life better and in every which way. Like everything. Like it's like it it's just there's so many things about this which are like like absolutely incredible.…