The Techbro Goal of Unemploying Everyone Not Going As Planned
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Mark Zuckerberg is not pleased that his investment in AI hasn’t led to the levels of mass unemployment he had hoped for. Or for people to really use it for much work related at all.
As Reuters reports, Zuckerberg admitted during a town hall last week that AI agents in particular aren’t progressing as fast as he anticipated, a devastating revelation following enormous layoffs that wiped out thousands of roles at the company.
The “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” he said according to a recording obtained by Reuters.
The reorganization effort’s timing was miscalculated and the job cuts were not “clean,” Zuckerberg said, while arguing that the plan had yet to “come to fruition.”
It’s only the latest indication of major chaos behind the scenes as the tech giant struggles to remain relevant in an AI race being fought out by its competitors. That’s despite Meta committing to spending a stunning $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year alone, a record sum that could’ve paid for an untold number of salaries.
It’s so sad when your “job cuts aren’t “clean.” A good clean firing, now that brings warmth to the black heart of any plutocrat.
Beyond Meta’s frantic AI efforts, company leaders also had to address yet another major sore point during last week’s town hall. Last month, Meta was forced to pause its controversial employee tracking program — which was designed to record everything workers do on their work computer to gather data for AI — after sensitive employee information was leaked internally.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth vowed that the program would be “opt-in” if it’s ever turned on again.
“For people who are comfortable, that’s great, they can contribute to this kind of great human survey,” he said at last week’s town hall. “To people who are not, it is not an issue.
This is my shocked face to discover that tech companies are dystopian employers.