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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 19, 2026
Then perhaps we need to send all immigrants – especially illegals home, so they can build their nations up. Don’t be more compassionate than we already are in the U.S. Legally over 1 million immigrants are granted entry per year. We cannot take in the world’s poor. Simple math…
Then we have to send all the INVADERS home to build up their own countries. pic.twitter.com/SqQOVXz2nu
— The General (@1776General_) May 19, 2026
- This is the utopian optimistic view. While, theoretically, it is a possible outcome, the path to get there requires you to ignore human nature. People are greedy, lazy, and lack empathy for others. Why would they hire another employee when they can save 5 cents by pushing the task on one they already pay? Especially when they don’t even have to give their worker a raise for additional responsibilities. – Tim N
AI has become the villain on X. And I can’t help but think its mostly the fault of top labs and leaders. We’ve all seen the commencement speakers getting booed, how layoffs are getting blamed on chatbots. Even massive Datacenter protests are spreading. And i don’t blame them. People studied their whole life, were told college and a 9-5 job is the “safe” and “right” path. And suddenly people are telling them it’s not. So I get the panic. But the story is being told dishonestly and we’ve reached a point where something has to change. There are three things I see happening leading the distaste. 1. The doom is a marketing strategy.
Dario went on Fox yesterday saying half of entry-level white-collar work could be gone in a year. He’s been saying this for the past two years. Some of that is true but most of it is positioning. Anthropic’s whole brand is “safe ai provider, we protect you.” Saying AI will eliminate millions of jobs reinforces that brand. He did the same thing with Mythos, saying how dangerous it was, can’t be released but then gave it to tons of enterprise customers. And again with the Pentagon. Its their branding and it’s hurting public perception heavily. 2. The labor story is reallocation, not annihilation. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs in recruiting, sales, middle management, Reality Labs. They’re also moving 1,000+ people into AI builder and AI pod lead roles. These are layoffs because the budget is needed elsewhere. Same thing that companies have been doing for hundreds of years.
New companies will hire aggressively because they have more work. There is no magic ai system replacing workers in enterprise companies. You still need people managing it. 3. The industry leads with the wrong story. AlphaFold won a Nobel. AI tutors are reaching kids who would never have had one. Drug discovery timelines are collapsing. Someone with ALS got their voice back this year! BUT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT. The industry talks about AI like a sci-fi (civilizational risk, AGI in 2 years, mass unemployment) when it should be talking about specific drugs, specific patients, specific outcomes. So much good will come out of this technology (and already has), but we present it in this bad light.
Bad news sells, but good news should too. And all the accounts reposting every Anthropic launch talking about how they killed so many jobs are only making it worse. I know plenty of you will read this and disagree, citing studies, citing leaders, citing the layoff data. Fair. But both things can be true at the same time. AI can be displacing people AND the industry can be making it sound worse than it is. People are right to be worried. Nobody should have to apologize for being scared of a technology that’s rewriting their entire future. But the worry can’t be the whole story we tell, because it’s nowhere near the whole story that’s happening. The AI industry has the worst PR strategy in tech history and people still wonder why the younger generation is so worried. – Gabriel (Post at X)
- Good. We need more ceos and leaders to promote AI in a positive light, not all these doomers causing everyone to hate the technology. The good > the bad – Jula B
- He’s right. We’ve seen this pattern before with electricity, motors, and computers — each time productivity exploded and new jobs emerged that we couldn’t even imagine. AI is the ultimate amplifier. It handles the routine so billions of people can focus on creativity, discovery, care, and building the future. The key is making the transition work for everyone: rapid reskilling, broad access to these tools (shoutout Grok, and the whole xAI ecosystem), and policies that encourage abundance instead of scarcity mindsets. With Optimus + AI agents + massive compute, we’re heading toward an era of radical abundance. Jobs won’t disappear — they’ll evolve, and entirely new categories will explode. Excited for what humanity builds next. The future is bright if we execute well. – Angela
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