To be fair we've seen dozens of CEOs and boards of directors get prematurely thrilled about the idea of replacing high-paid jobs with AI (or at least with AI and some lower paying jobs to curate the good slop from the eldritch horrors and hallucinations).

This guy is being semi-self-aware at least, and they all need to be reminded the economy despairs for good jobs

Also, I bet a nickel if we looked at his clerical staff we can find bullshit jobs there to keep clerks running around so he feels important while he walks through the office. Take those guys and let them work at home as part of the LLM team. I bet they'd appreciate doing real work (and skipping the commute).

Right now it takes specialists with a solid LORA game to make generative AI produce functional results. If we acknowledged this, then we'd either integrate AI as a new tool for doing stuff or we'd ditch it and keep our artists and experts. (And, with newfound appreciation for them, give them a raise?)

Also I still stand by the notion that well-treated, well-paid workers are productive workers. It was recently affirmed by a farm expert noting that prison inmates are outperformed by low-paid undocumented laborers who are outperformed (in turn) by well paid workers (documented or otherwise.)

We could make capitalism work if our bourgeoisie wasn't so busy trying to be aristocrats and hyper-bigots.

Or we could nationalize AI development like China in a step towards post scarcity, but that would likely require violent revolution.