AI Makes Me Sad
A student expresses deep existential dread regarding the rapid advancement of AI and its impact on the future of human labor and creativity. The author reflects on the irony of peers pursuing high-paying AI roles while potentially contributing to their own future obsolescence.
Why it matters
It captures the growing cultural anxiety among young professionals regarding the long-term societal and psychological impacts of artificial intelligence.
Am I allowed to say that? Because it does.
Maybe it's because I'm writing this at 2:00 AM, which is about the only time I let myself experience sadness for a prolonged period of time, but every time I see a post on Twitter or LinkedIn about a new development in AI, I feel a sense of hopelessness.
And I'm saying this as someone who is absolutely in a position to benefit from AI. If I added a few vibecoded projects to my resume, the gaping maw of every startup, enterprise company, and FAANG behemoth would open to me. Just the other day, I sat near a table of my fellow TAs as they discussed their plans to work at OpenAI after graduation, eyeing $500k salaries.
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