Now we know that AI won’t take all of our jobs, Silicon Valley has to fix its fundamental mistake: Automation theater has to end
Silicon Valley is optimizing for the wrong metric. Most people working in high-stakes domains recognize now that AI will not take every job, but with that realization comes a harder truth: the industry has been building autonomy when it should have been building accountability.
The push for fully autonomous systems, agents that plan, reason, and act without human oversight, has created an automation theater where demos impress, but production systems disappoint. The obsession with...