AI Killed My Job: Tech workers - by Brian Merchant
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Who wins when we see each other as little more than faulty tools?| everything changes
Virginia Valian has a work problem: she struggles to do the work she wants to do.| everything changes
At will.| everything changes
Brian Merchant asked workers what AI was doing to their jobs and got back loads of thoughtful, hilarious, at times desperate and at times righteous responses.| everything changes
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Choose a life that’s worth living.| everything changes
On moving on.| everything changes
Apply now.| everything changes
Facing up and moving forward.| everything changes
Skipping, playing, walking, dancing, working in terrible times.| everything changes
Interviews with fired federal workers make clear what’s at stake.| everything changes
Look up.| everything changes
Readable context for why DEIJ programs are still legal.| everything changes
Deskilling transformed into productivity.| everything changes
Apply now to join a creative gathering to imagine the future of work.| everything changes
Refuse to do what you’re told.| everything changes
Set up safe spaces to talk, coordinate, and work in solidarity now.| everything changes
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.| wreckage/salvage
“To proceed in a hostile world, call it an experiment”| everything changes
“I chose and it might have been otherwise.”| everything changes
Knowing when to make a break.| everything changes
“My brain couldn’t stop me, so that tiny but mighty intestinal diverticulum did.”| everything changes
Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis| A Working Library
