Corporate executives in nearly every industry and mega margin-maximizing consultancies like McKinsey, BlackRock, and Deloitte want to "increase productivity" with Al, which is consultant-speak for replacing labor with technology.

But this promise is highly exaggerated. In the vast majority of cases, Al is not going to replace your job. But it will make your job a lot shittier. What actors and writers are fighting for is a future that doesn't relegate humans to babysitting scriptwriting and acting algorithms, available on call but only paid when the media synthesis machines glitch out. We're already seeing this in domains as diverse as journalism, legal services, and the taxi industry. While executives suggest that Al is going to be a labor-saving device, in reality it is meant to be a labor-breaking one. It is intended to devalue labor by threatening workers with technology that can supposedly do their job at a fraction of the cost.

— The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna (11%)