‘Stop hiring humans’? Silicon Valley confronts AI job panic
AI industry insiders want workers to code smarter, think harder and lean into their humanity – but still dodge the question of how many jobs artificial intelligence will destroy.
The reassurance rang out across HumanX, a four-day conference drawing some 6,500 investors, entrepreneurs and tech executives, even as a blunt advertisement at the entrance set the tone: “Stop hiring humans.”
On the main stage, May Habib, chief executive of an AI platform called Writer, told the audience that Fortune 500 bosses are having a “collective panic attack” on the subject.
