Link: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/19/more-than-half-of-americans-now-view-ai-negatively/5289736

We are winning :)

The more jobs lost to AI will accelerate that even more. It was never about making things easier for the worker. It has always been about not having to pay humans. Take from the bottom to feed the top.

I don't even think it will take many jobs permanently, but to your point it never mattered if AI works or can actually replace human beings at work, all that matters is that people believe it will and then that means that companies can fire large amounts of workers and hire them back under permanently "temporary" positions that pay less, have less stability and condescend the humanity of the worker at a basic level by framing their labor as a temporary substitution for a superior LLM/"AI" to eventually step in and replace.

It is the SAME EXACT STORY as how Uber from the beginning framed its human drivers as temporary... even as dreams of self driving cars have faded from any serious discussion in the near term.. the mistreatment, devaluing and dehumanization were successfully codified into the rideshare industry which was always the goal in the first place.

Which isn't to say that plenty of CEOs haven't drank the KoolAid on AI and are totally lost in the sauce, but two things can be true at the same time...

Doing applications one company asked in their forms to describe my feelings towards AI. They want you to swear allegiance to our AI overlords to get hired...

Also, a job that llms CAN do well was a waste of time to begin with.

The tech bros have no one to blame for this but themselves. They're the ones who pushed the 'it'll take your jobs/its super scary' narrative more than anyone else

In addition to shoving absolute piece of shit "products" into everything. Prompt injectable "assistants", worthless search overviews, shoveled out without any QA or security reviews or anything.

Take those doctor transcriotionists that make up whole sentences. Why in the fuck is there even an LLM in there? Oh it lowers word error rate? That's because nobody expected having to benchmark bad faith efforts where coherent sentences can be completely made up, so nobody thought it necessary to disqualify for it.