Stephen Klein

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AI Panic Is A Profitable Business Model. I’m Not Buying It.

Every week it’s the same script: 'AGI is coming' and then 'humans are obsolete' and then 'also please subscribe to my newsletter.'

I do not believe we’re headed for a clean sci-fi ending where the machines either save us or slaughter us. Real life doesn’t resolve like that.

we will automate everything measurable,

and then discover the only things we actually care about are the things we can’t measure.

Which raises the question.

What can’t be measured?

Meaning.

Trust.

Taste.

Courage.

Judgment.

Love.

Restraint.

Humor (the kind that doesn’t punch down).

And the ability to sit with uncertainty without turning it into content.

These aren’t 'soft skills.'

They’re the hard boundary of computation.

And yes, this is where the conversation gets uncomfortable, because the people selling inevitability don’t like boundaries.

Here’s the thing…

Most of what gets labeled 'AI' in business is just measurement with better packaging.

Score it.

Rank it.

Predict it.

Automate it.

Call it transformation.

And then act shocked when everyone feels like they’re living inside a spreadsheet.

We are not only building systems.

We are building incentives.

If the incentive is 'scale at all costs' then we will scale the worst instincts too.

If the incentive is 'extract value' then we will extract from customers, workers, creators, and eventually the future itself.

Wounded organizations behave like wounded animals.

They get unpredictable.

They lash out.

They start calling basic decency 'a luxury we can’t afford right now.'

So what should you actually do, practically, this year?

Here are 7 FREE ways to become harder to replace (No coding required). 🤯

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