In the labor case, I think there is possibly ability to reverse.

Like if you make too early of a call and you try to replace all your workers with AI and then it doesn't work out, you hire back the workers.

But there are lots of other things that this hype around AI is driving forward that is not reversible.

Hello and welcome.

Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

I'm willing to bet that before November of 2022, you had never heard of a tech nonprofit

called OpenAI, and you'd probably never heard of an individual name, Sam Altman.

Now, maybe you work in tech and an AI, and you had.

But I think the vast majority of people hadn't.

I had never heard of Open AI.

I had never heard of Sam Altman.

And then they introduced this new generative AI chat feature called ChatGBTBT.

And, you know, there's only a few times where there's been a kind of tech sensation, like the introduction of that.

It became the fastest growing app in history.

It catapulted them into fame, both Open Eye and Sam Altman.

Sam Altman is now one of the most famous people, probably in America and in the world.

He was in the White House, I think the second day of the Trump administration.

He was recently in Saudi Arabia during Trump's trip there.

Open AI is at the vanguard of what has been this kind of revolution in tech

in which hundreds of billions of not trillions of, have poured into the development of artificial intelligence based on large language models.

And, you know, depending on who you ask, it's either at the cusp of the most transformative technology in all of human history that will in alterably catapult us into a strange new future in which humans enjoy

like the leisure they've been promised since the dawn of the industrial age when Marx was writing

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