Fifteen percent of workers say they'd be fine with an AI boss. Meanwhile, thirty percent of March's sixty thousand US layoffs are being blamed directly on AI — and most of those jobs were in tech, the sector that built the tools doing the replacing. Jeremy and Jason sit with the uncomfortable logic of where this all leads: a capitalism that's optimizing so hard for efficiency that it's burning the workforce it depends on. No guests, no protocol. Just two guys who've been around long enough to remember when this job was supposed to be a career, and who aren't sure 'adapt' is the answer anymore.
https://brobotspodcast.substack.com/
*Key Moments*
* 00:00 — The AI boss survey: 15% say they'd accept a robot manager — and why that number reveals more about human managers than AI
* 02:41 — Why 'the boss function' doesn't feel fully human to most employees anyway
* 04:01 — Jason's case that employers are trying to replace everyone, not just management
* 05:31 — The outsourcing pattern: from Asia to AI — it's the same playbook, accelerated
* 09:39 — The 60,000 March layoffs: 18,000 attributed to AI, mostly in tech — the people who built the tools
* 11:01 — Silent quitting, AI monitoring, and how the three-month detection window just collapsed
* 12:28 — The signal-to-noise problem: collective apathy and why people can't find the action step
* 13:37 — Jason's reframe: the system isn't against you. It just doesn't see you as a threat anymore.
* 16:52 — The generational split: why kids who grew up through 9/11, COVID, and two financial crises don't flinch at gig economy chaos
* 18:47 — Anthropic's weapons refusal and the autonomous killing machine pipeline: from digital infrastructure to meat space
* 21:17 — Jeremy's optimism thread — and why Jason thinks we keep handing wiffle ball bats to toddlers
