Uber burnt out its entire year AI budget in Q1, Similarily microsoft removed Claude license from its developers due to the huge expenses. The consensus is AI agents doing just the baseline work are much more expensive than human employees. so the idea of businesses predominantly run by AI agents while white collar jobs get mass displacement with socio-economic structure get transformed into hand labour workers and rich business owners with white collars de facto disappearing hits an economic wall indefinitely. In fact we are currently in a chain where neither AI companies are profiting nor their customers are making additional substantial gains to justify these additional large expenses. No one is profiting. Nonetheless, this is not saying AI is totally uneconomic or will die as if didnt exist, but that its business usage and areas of application will be much more limited than “AI does every (or 90% of) cognitive-centered jobs” future some anticipated. And indeed AI will (and already did) have significant impact on white collar jobs functionality and demand. submitted by /u/zoratosthenes
Originally posted by u/zoratosthenes on r/ArtificialInteligence