Satirizing AI displacement narrative: buy more AI to protect yourself from AI
suchenzang · x · 2026-08-17
This post satirizes a common AI sales pitch: the speaker constrains job displacement to "entry-level" work and "only" 50%, framing it as a historical positive shift like the industrial revolution. The core critique highlights the circular logic: the proposed solution to preparing for AI disruption is simply buying more AI from the speaker, supposedly to gain protection from that very disruption.
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