Is publicly downplaying AI actually the rational move to protect your job?
simmol · reddit · 2026-10-15
A pro-AI Redditor steelmans the anti-AI camp: if AI truly can automate much of your job, your boss recognizing that fact threatens your job security, so publicly dismissing AI as overhyped may be the rational self-interested play. The post asks what share of habitual AI skeptics are consciously or unconsciously operating on exactly this logic.
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