It’s no comfort to the employees who are losing their jobs, of course, but it seems worth saying in the context of wider anxieties: you’ll read this piece in vain for any evidence of anyone being fired because their roles can now be performed by machines. These people are certainly AI casualties, but in the sense that Zuckerberg is desperately redirecting funds & focus to try to profit from AI, not because that’s going great and he can do without 8,000 workers as a result. You could plausibly argue that’s the precise opposite of what’s commonly understood by the idea of AI coming for jobs.

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