"Look, if I'd laid him off because he took sick leave, that would be illegal, but I didn't lay him off because he took sick leave, I laid him off because AI told me to lay him off. And AI is smart. You can't tell me it wasn't a good decision."

Repeat across the entire economy

"We don't need AI to be functional - we just need it to give us answers we want and convince enough people that it's giving those answers because it's better than us."

“The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things,” Zuckerberg said in an internal meeting, according to the Information. “The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks.”

This guy doesn't understand anything about humans doing tasks, or generative AI.

Why would they even need AI for that?

Feels like a simple data query would have sufficed, but ok

So desperate to justify the unnecessary amount of money thrown away.

This is all I need to know.

I feel like you could just use SQL for that.

Then your compensation does not include said leave. The options are to work every day indefinitely or get fired for not showing up. Pretty sure that didn't come up during the job interviews.

,,,duh...