3. Industries must adopt a "people over profits" model where innovations focus primarily on elevating people to our highest potentials instead of just focusing on the bottom line.

Or else, we've lost sight of the plot.

The best way forward is together.

Any other solutions?

2. CEOs of companies with the means and intent to replace their workers with AI should form a global coalition dedicated to helping people with job placement, career/skill transitions, and some form of UBI.

People want to know they can afford to live.

And it is owed to them.

1. First and foremost, we need to improve our language around AI and technology in general.

The doom and gloom rhetoric are inspiring panic and animosity toward innovation, instead of wonder and engagement.

We need a balance of honesty, transparency and cooperation.

People, human beings, are the reason we innovate.

Since the emergence of human civilization, we've been trying to make people's lives better.

But today, it seems like we've become more concerned with making the product better.

But what to do about it?

I have a few ideas.

The real issue with Kaufman's email, and with technologists in general, is that in their pushes for innovations that are meant to improve people's lives, they often forget the most important part...

the people.

Technology keeps advancing. People fall behind.

Nobody cares.

As a technologist, Micha Kaufman's email does very little to curb a growing anxiety about what will happen to people AFTER they've been replaced by AI automation.

There are no programs to help with the transition, no UBI, nothing.

It's causing panic and building tech resentment

AI is coming for our jobs because it is designed to, because we want it to.

But one of the issues I see with today's push toward AI is that it's happening TO people and not WITH them.

And here is where I take issue with Kaufman's email.

There is no presented "solution".

Like many technological advancements throughout our history, AI is just another attempt at making people's lives simpler and easier.

This often looks like how we can lessen effort but increase output and reward.

Honestly, most of us don't want to work that hard for that long.

I actually agree with Kaufman on AI coming for our jobs.

Whether or not you believe in AI or you think it's just another tech bubble, doesn't matter.

This is the direction industries are headed now.

And AI is coming for our jobs because, well, it's supposed to.