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kulahanlast Friday at 9:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

Oh boy I can’t wait until we get rid of the highest paying jobs!

Your response doesn’t explain why so many people are hyped about it, just why CEOs are.


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fnimicklast Friday at 9:23 PM

There's a lot of non-engineering people who are very happy to see someone else get unemployed by automation for a change. The people who formerly were automating others out of a job are getting a taste of their own medicine.

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crystal_revengelast Friday at 11:48 PM

CEOs run every major media outlet and public platform for communication, people that hype AI will get their content promoted and will see more success which creates and incentive to create content.

This doesn't even require any "conspiracy" among CEOs, just people with a vested interest in AI hype who act in that interest, shaping the type of content their organizations will produce. We saw something lessor with the "return to office" frenzy just because many CEOs realized a large chunk of their investment portfolio was in commercial real estate. That was only less hyped because I suspect there were larger numbers of CEOs with an interest in remaining remote.

Outside of the tech scene, AI is far less hyped and in places where CEOs tend to have little impact on the media it tends to be resisted rather than hyped.