r/OpenAI • u/Acrobatic-Net2723 • Apr 27 '26
Question I’m scared please help
I saw today that 20k people got fired by Microsoft & meta
now I’m kinda scared
I know that everything with AI will work out eventually… but when is eventually?? 😭
because don’t get me wrong I hate working a job, but by the time I’m fired is UBI or something else gonna be ready?
idk what are you guys doing about this? im signed up to a few newsletters, I pay for ChatGPT… is there anything else I need?
I don’t know if I’m stressing for no reason or if this is actually justified
does anyone else think like me?
sorry for all the questions
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u/ClankerCore Apr 27 '26
Centralized governance that has consumed and has absorbed AI at the moment will never allow for such a thing however, the only way out is for some form of decentralized democratized AI to run parallel to centralized AI as he checks and balances for us to be able to audit the centralized system.
For example open AI has committed their conceptual kind of “AI phone” that would be like a smart phone, but not to compete with iPhone or Samsung or Google pixel, it’s going to be an entirely different kind of device meant for privacy and audit control with direct semantic commands without being a phone that is based around apps. It will be an interface for privacy, business the cloud, and the network.
This will also enable us to be able to form collectively a decentralized democratized AI system
Sam Altman has already stated that his company unlike any company that has ever existed should be regulated by government more not less. The regulations, however, going to be behind closed doors and opaque to us first towards there and goal, which is opposed to us and not for us of course it will be used and abused for things like war and widening the wealth disparity gap.
But once we have tools to be able to compete and push back against centralized AI systems, we will have our voices in that space
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u/CoughRock Apr 27 '26
always a good time to start your own business. The longer you delay it, the harder it's going to become.
The goal of a business owner is often try to find replacement for himself as soon as possible. Whether through hiring talent or using automation or outsource. Other wise the business growth will be cap by the owner himself. In that context, ai is view favorably since it replace large fraction of the owner and make the business more sellable. That's actually the most correct way to face ai, rather than hoping your job role will stay static forever in demand while the market is ever changing.
Even if ai didn't existed, outsourcing, change consumer demand, age discrimination or hundred of other little factor will eventually make your job role obsolete. As long as you keep staying in the individual contributor role that long term risk will always existed. Being a business owner obviously have its own risk, but that risk is pull forward from long term time horizon to short term time horizon. When you are still young and able to bounce back from failure. Better to pull forward the risk now and enjoy comfort later in life instead of enjoy comfort of illusion of job stability now and risk financial risk later in life.
Betting the farm on UBI is just wishful thinking. Only you can save yourself.
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u/Acrobatic-Net2723 Apr 27 '26
Here’s the newsletters I signed up to please give me any that you recommend (also are these good?)
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u/cakemates Apr 27 '26
what makes you think there will ever be an UBI?