About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of AI on the workforce, including the potential for AI to replace not just workers but also management roles.

Fifteen percent of workers say they'd be fine with an AI boss. Meanwhile, thirty percent of March's sixty thousand US layoffs are being blamed directly on AI — and most of those jobs were in tech, the sector that built the tools doing the replacing. Jeremy and Jason sit with the uncomfortable logic of where this all leads: a capitalism that's optimizing so hard for efficiency that it's burning the workforce it depends on. No guests, no protocol. Just two guys who've been around long enough to remember when this job was supposed to be a career, and who aren't sure 'adapt' is the answer anymore. Get the Newsletter! Key Moments 00:00 — The AI boss survey: 15% say they'd accept a robot manager — and why that number reveals more about human managers than AI 02:41 — Why 'the boss function' doesn't feel fully human to most employees anyway 04:01 — Jason's case that employers are trying to replace everyone, not just management 05:31 — The outsourcing pattern: from Asia to AI — it's the same playbook, accelerated 09:39 — The 60,000 March layoffs: 18,000 attributed to AI, mostly in tech — the people who built the tools 11:01 — Silent quitting, AI monitoring, and how the three-month…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeremy Grater, Jason Haworth

Topics covered

• AI in the workplace
• job displacement
• capitalism and efficiency
• employee management
• layoffs
• generational impact

Keywords

• AI boss
• job replacement
• workforce
• efficiency
• layoffs
• employee management
• capitalism
• generational split

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI, March, US, tech

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