So, Where Does Next-Token Prediction Leave Us?

# Summary AI industry leaders are increasingly dismissing the concerns of those displaced by large language models, celebrating job automation with a tribalistic fervor while promoting the idea that human labor will become economically obsolete. The author argues this optimism reflects a privileged perspective, as most of the world lacks the social safety nets to absorb mass job displacement, and AI's original promise to solve major problems like climate change and poverty has been abandoned in favor of simply cutting labor costs. Without systemic solutions like corporate taxation or universal basic income, stripping billions of people of their economic utility will destabilize the capitalist bargain that has long motivated human effort and social stability.