<p>For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them</p><p>"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/commentisf</span><span class="invisible">ree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/aipocalypse/" rel="tag">#aipocalypse</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a></p>