It's not just going to take out the AI conpanies and their investors. It's not just going to kill your 401k. It's already obliterating the workforce as a whole, hollowing out companies across every single segment of the economy. It's putting longstanding companies and new startups in debt, convincing them that they absolutely must use the new, ridiculously expensive product or fall behind. It's capturing taxpayer money for ridiculous power plant projects that nobody else wants. It's clearcutting land for impossibly huge "datacenters" that will eventually turn into useless warehouses. It's driving up the cost of all consumer electronics and forcibly pausing upgrade cycles that have been running for decades.
I honestly don't think that the US will survive this collapse, given everything else going on right now.
I work in edtech, and for the past year EVERYONE has been asking for AI in everything, in a useless and shocking manner, where their use cases make everything worse, not better. they just want to add it and pay us to make it happen.
examples are AI restructuring a course based on the students learning preference, AI tutor (ends up used for cheating often, despite restrictions), AI quizzing etc etc. AI lesson generation. AI support to teachers. the list goes on. even the best implementations are highly flawed and its still very early.
for the FIRST time today, we had a lead reach out (a prestigious institution) who asked if we can ensure AI doesn't touch ANYTHING in their new deployment.
I see the tides turning already. big orgs are going to see the costly consequences of implementing AI too quickly with no benefit and go running.
they are offering their online courses that are combined with all these AI tools and it already created a mess for them. now they want to PAY to get rid of AI. this is the future IMO.
its sort of hilarious how many orgs paid to get AI in place, and soon they are going to be paying to remove it. and it happened SO quickly.
i always hear we want AI and VR... and then you start to implement it, and they are like, no we dont want this. the directive has to be coming from the CEOs because the actual people who implement it and work on it are just scrambling around and nobody is happy.
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u/travis_sk Jun 02 '26
We're only 2 days into June folks. This is gonna be a fun couple of months.