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The AI Gold Rush Is Dead. Corporate AI Is A DELUSION.
The AI Gold Rush Is Dead. Corporate AI Is A DELUSION.
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AI isn’t taking your job because it’s cheaper.
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That’s a lie. In many cases,
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replacing you with AI costs hundreds of thousands of dollars more than your salary… and Wall Street
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knows it. So, why is this happening? Because right now, there’s a $1 trillion
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hole in the global economy caused by executives making decisions under what experts are calling
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a kind of mass AI delusion triggered by a $20 chatbot. And it’s leading to one thing…
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CEO’s are replacing humans with AI… and it’s backfiring.
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Chapter 1: The Sycophancy Trap Business leaders know what they want. That’s how
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they got to the top. They have more money, more power and more confidence in their own judgment.
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And that’s exactly where the problem begins. By the time they reach that level, they’re already
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used to “yes men.” People who don’t challenge them. People who don’t question decisions.
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Now imagine giving that environment a tool that never argues back. That never questions them.
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At first, it feels ideal.
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AI creates a dopamine hit disguised as intelligence. A quick boost to the
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ego. Every question gets a confident answer. It’ll very rarely disagree. It
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can usually be counted on for positive feedback, and it can be customized to
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whatever your interests are. Instead of talking with people outside the computer,
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users stay inside a closed loop of validation. Conversation after conversation happens with
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no real resistance on the other side. Soon, they start to think of the AI as foolproof,
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relying on its wisdom as some sort of collective, a virtual Oracle without checking other sources.
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And it can be dangerous.
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Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark examined patterns of AI use,
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and came to a disturbing conclusion. People struggling with mental illness not only were
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vulnerable to influence from AI, but could display worsening symptoms after interacting
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with AI chatbots. They studied the records of 54,000 people with diagnosed conditions,
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and found dozens of cases where patients suffered from worsened delusions and harmful behaviors.
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And you get what you put into it.
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And when there are billions of dollars on the line, that can have serious consequences.
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The CEOs who are replacing their workers with AI, ironically,
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are likely getting their advice from… AI. The technology has been integrated into companies
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long before the ax falls on the first workers. And the CEO is sitting in his corner office,
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asking his chatbot for advice - and getting back encouragement to keep investing in AI.
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This creates a delusion loop that helps no one besides the AI. The CEO gets the
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dopamine hit from the AI agreeing with him, and invests even further as a result.
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And the end result might be the biggest capital misappropriation in human history.
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Across the tech world, AI investment is in full swing. And while there are several major
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AI companies seeking to take advantage, it helps to be the first. The biggest gun in the AI world
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is still Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The company continues to cut massive deals with other
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companies to the tune of $1 trillion so far. Most of this is still planned investments,
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but it’s a level of trust in this new technology that’s unheard of.
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This kind of money is huge even for Silicon Valley.
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There are only 15 companies with a trillion-dollar market cap and
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only one that has reached the $5 trillion point… Nvidia. Its GPUs and semiconductors have become
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the backbone of the AI boom. And that changes everything.
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Because as major companies race to build the future of artificial intelligence,
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two names keep appearing in almost every major deal. OpenAI and Nvidia.
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One supplies the intelligence, the other supplies the hardware.
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And if all that investment plays out, it’s going to make a lot of people unfathomably wealthy.
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How much is a trillion dollars? It’s roughly the cost of building 10 International Space Stations.
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This total AI investment alone is larger than the market cap of many big tech companies. Amazon,
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Microsoft, Meta, and other big names dropped heavy investment into AI in 2025, and so far,
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according to one of the biggest names in economics, it’s contributed… nothing.
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Now, people are starting to get worried.
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Chapter 2: The Trillion Dollar Hallucination
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The warning bell is ringing.
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Goldman Sachs is one of the most trusted sources for economic and investment news, and they’re
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sounding the alarm. According to Harvard economics professor Jason Furman, while the data processing
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sector of the economy is only 4% of American GDP, it accounted for 92% of GDP growth in the first
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half of 2025. It’s the only area where the economy is actually growing. That means every other
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business is helping AI grow, but AI isn’t lifting those other sectors with it… at least not yet.
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And everyone is watching the stock market very carefully.
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If AI is getting heavy investment, but so far hasn’t resulted in any boost to the US GDP,
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how long is the golden goose going to last? Goldman Sachs didn’t outright
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say that AI is a bad investment, but did encourage caution. They didn’t
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think AI would have a significant impact on the economy until 2027.
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But if people start to lose faith, things could unravel… fast.
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Savvy investors are starting to warn about a possible AI bubble and the circular wave
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of investments simply stops. Stocks take a dive, and all the other companies that
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are now heavily invested in its success go with it. In the worst-case scenarios,
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people worry this could result in a massive market crash. Because right now,
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the AI economy is just a massive wealth transfer from one tech company to another.
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And it’s not even staying in the US economy.
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Without the energy generated by data farms, large parts of the internet could be taken down by heavy
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AI use. While it might seem the same as asking a search engine, a ChatGPT query can use at least
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10 times as much electricity and as much as 60 times, depending on the task. And with sites
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like Google now incorporating AI into their search engines, the demand is constant. All
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this increases the demand for data centers. These are straining power grids in wealthy nations, with
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the human labor required to train these models is quietly outsourced to lower-income areas overseas
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Which has a lot of people asking: who’s benefiting?
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The technology isn’t growing the economy right now. To many people,
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it feels like a financial house of cards - with every investment going to a new
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technology that no one is sure will be a long-term game-changer. It could wind
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up being a curiosity. It could wind up hitting a singularity that could put us
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all in danger. Or it could revolutionize the economy in a way that no one could predict.
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In one way, it already has. Because the companies
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are already acting like this is the future and there’s no going back.
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And a whole lot of people are losing their jobs.
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Chapter 3: The Efficiency Lie
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2025 was the year when the AI job layoffs hit home, and it became a dark year for the
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tech sector. According to consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas,
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there were 55,000 layoffs in the US directly attributed to AI investments. However,
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that was only a small percentage of the overall layoffs. Approximately 1.17 million,
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the worst number for jobs since the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered large portions of the economy.
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There’s a real human cost to the decisions the companies are making right now.
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And it might not be slowing down any time soon.
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Amid the worries about mass layoffs, Goldman Sachs issued a blunt warning in April 2026
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for the workers being pushed out by AI: don’t expect it to be an easy road back. They stated
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that these workers might face a long search to secure a new job in their current field,
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with the odds being that it will pay less and have less-desirable
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conditions than the one they left. The field of available jobs is shrinking all the time,
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as companies seek to put AI to work for them to save money.
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All AI investment right now is, essentially, a bet on a future that
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hasn’t happened so far. Companies talk about AI becoming as smart as people,
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being able to do tasks in seconds that would take humans hours to accomplish.
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But right now, AI is imperfect… and costly.
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The technology is a massive energy-eater. As of July 2025, ChatGPT was processing around
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2.5 billion queries per day, with Gemini and other AI portals dealing with similar
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traffic and using the same technology. That requires the energy use of roughly
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a full nuclear reactor to keep them running daily. To train the next generation of models,
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supercomputer data centers will require the energy use of up to 10 nuclear reactors each day.
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Data centers burn round the clock to keep these services up and running,
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and the demand only grows as companies incorporate it in more and more services.
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And few of them actually work.
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For the average person, AI looks impressive. But behind the scenes,
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there are still serious problems. The technology isn’t actually thinking. It’s a predictive model,
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pulling from other sources. Companies have been criticized for posting flawed AI art
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with glaring errors, and AI-generated text has been found to be riddled with errors,
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requiring the use of editors to ensure it passes muster. So companies put all
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this investment into AI, only to have to fall back on people anyway.
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Despite that, the investment isn’t slowing down.
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In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
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In the past, CEOs were often distanced from their product and could see its flaws. Famously,
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Mark Zuckerberg said he wouldn’t allow his children on social media until they were
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teenagers. But in the case of new AI technology, that’s often not the case. AI CEOs have access
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to new AI agents before the general public does, and they don’t just interact with them,
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they get pulled in by them. They become their first true believer. And once they’re that
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deep in with their new pet project, it’s very hard to pull them out of that orbit.
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They know this… but it’s not stopping them.
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Chapter 4: Psychosis In The Corner Office
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Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, has been involved at many of the biggest tech companies over the
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last few decades, and he’s all in on AI. But he wound up in the news recently for popularizing
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a new term: Cyber Psychosis. It’s something that emerges when people spend too much time chatting
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with AI. But Tan wasn’t warning of it. He was describing himself in gleeful terms. He described
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how he was so excited to work with AI agents that he was only sleeping 4 hours a night. In the past,
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he relied on the sleep-prevention drug modafinil to survive grueling startup hours. But now,
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he doesn’t even need to pop pills because the AI provides him with so much energy.
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Tan’s public display of faith in AI, in which he publicly released some of the
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code that he was developing on Anthropic’s Claude, was seen as one of the most dramatic
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displays of how AI affects the mind. He has been working with AI prompts extensively,
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and the more exposure someone has to the technology, the more they are prone to believing
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they’ve created something truly revolutionary. In fact, there’s even a term many of them use - “God
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Mode” - where they believe they’re getting closer to that fabled singularity of truly autonomous AI.
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But under the hood, it’s a lot more fragile.
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Ultimately, AI is based around a series of text prompts. The more complex the prompt workflows,
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the more precise AI appears and the more complex tasks it
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can accomplish. But each feature relies on a highly structured series of code,
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and none of the current technology approximates the actual process of a thinking mind. However,
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the more time a CEO spends with their own technology, the more it appears to be otherwise.
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Anecdotal reports from people working in the tech industry report that Cyber Psychosis is
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increasingly common as the development of the technology speeds up and the arms race escalates.
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But success is hard to achieve… and even rarer.
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In late 2025, an MIT study looked into the state of AI in business,
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and examined 300 public implementations of the technology. It was well-known that the
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technology was still in an early state, but the news was bleaker than anyone expected.
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It found that the vast majority of AI enterprises were still not profitable. Only 5% of integrated
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AI pilots showed any significant impact on company profit, and the vast majority
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never even reach the phase where the public can have a say on whether they work or not.
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In fact, most never get off the ground at all.
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The vast majority of successes in AI are geared towards individual consumers. ChatGPT and Gemini
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are used by millions of people a day, but most users are free users. Only a small percentage
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are paid subscribers. These AI services do most of their businesses by partnering with other
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companies, and those companies then develop ways to incorporate the technology into their services.
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But while 60% of companies evaluate tools, only 20% of those take the project to the pilot stage.
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And only 5% make it to the final stage and are deployed on the production or service line.
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That means the vast majority of money invested in AI just…fades away.
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Right now, the entire AI economy is balancing on the head of a pin. The investments keep coming,
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because the companies spearheading the roll-out have convinced other companies that they’re
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the future. It doesn’t make sense for most companies to try to develop their own AI tool,
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so they fall back on working with one of the established big guns like OpenAI.
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But those investments haven’t delivered dividends for most of these companies yet.
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The bills keep racking up, and the layoffs keep hitting their employees.
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And it may all be about to hit critical mass.
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If 20 revolutionary projects are announced, and 19 of them wind up in the garbage can,
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that’s not sustainable. If AI continues to fail to deliver for its clients, the tech workers laid
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off might not be the only ones out of work. Investors are watching nervously. Meanwhile,
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laid-off tech workers are watching hopefully that the bubble might be about to burst.
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Which might not be that far off.
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Chapter 5: The Great Reversal
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There will always be early adopters, and most of the companies to adopt AI most aggressively have
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been tech based. But that makes them test cases… and those tests don’t always work out. Klarna,
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the digital bank and financial services company, was ahead of the curve. Its CEO,
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, was confident in 2024 that AI could take over many human jobs.
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It was a good test case, because many of its functions are very repetitive and predictable.
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Then the ax started to fall.
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The company froze hiring for over a year. Its workforce was heavily slashed by almost 40%,
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dropping from 5,500 to 3,400. Their replacement? An AI chatbot who was
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supposedly doing the work of over 700 customer service agents, handling hundreds of financial
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transactions simultaneously. It was one of the first big tests of whether AI could actually
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take over mass numbers of jobs. The results soon started flowing in from Klarna customers…
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And they were not happy.
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The chatbot performed simple tasks fine, but it couldn't deal with complex issues.
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Customers grew frustrated and lacked trust in the company. It was one of the biggest
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embarrassments for a tech company in the new AI era. Klarna was soon forced to reverse
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course. Having laid off most of their customer service staff, they were forced
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to quickly pivot and train their other staff to handle these positions until they could rehire.
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That led to the spectacle of engineers and marketing staff answering customer calls
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and they might have done a better job than the automated version. It’s a pattern that’s
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been happening across the board. Companies that invested in AI are starting to perform u-turns.
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The only question is how low it can go.
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The tech research firm Forrester has been studying the shift to AI over the last few years,
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and their forecasts have rarely been positive. They’ve studied how unready employees are to
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adjust to the new AI paradigm, as well as how employees aren’t benefiting from the shift yet.
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But now they’re ready to make a big prediction. Companies have been firing employees en masse,
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hoping to replace them with AI, but that’s left them without the braintrust they need to know
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how to use new technology effectively. That’s like an airline firing the pilot to save money
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on cargo weight, and then realizing they need someone to fly the plane.
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So all those employees looking for new jobs… might want to look where they started.
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Forrester predicts that not only will many of these companies need to hire more humans,
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but that half of all AI-related layoffs will be reversed by 2027. 55% of employers
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already regret the decision to cut staff. That might put the axed staff back in the
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driver’s seat. These are people who built much of the modern tech infrastructure,
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and were forced out. And now, in order to avoid disaster, those same brains
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are needed to reverse the slide. Assuming that the CEOs know when disaster is about to occur.
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That’s the big x-factor in the current AI paradigm.
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AI hasn’t become profitable yet. It hasn’t made itself indispensable for the companies. But it
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has done an amazing job of convincing people it has - from the people pumping dozens of
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queries into ChatGPT a day, to the CEOs in the suite vibe-coding the next innovation. They’re
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primarily getting feedback from the AI, and it’s continuing to tell them everything is great. They
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keep investing, the numbers on the stock tracker keep going up, and so do the dopamine receptors.
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It’s all great… until it isn’t.
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Right now, the most likely outcome is that people fired for AI will be
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in the driver’s seat. The company needs their expertise, and they’ll be able to
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negotiate a new salary when they come back. Analysts know this is necessary,
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the CEOs might not. There’s a lack of leadership at the top right now, with some of the smartest
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people in tech taking their guidance from chatbots they coded themselves.
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And they might just keep doing so…until the whole house of cards comes crashing down.
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But it raises a much bigger question.What happens when that same tool moves beyond
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tech companies and into systems where the stakes aren’t profits, but consequences? Find out the
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terrifying truth in “AI Played a War Game. It NUKED Everyone”, or watch this video instead.
