{"id":4146,"date":"2026-02-11T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:24:25","slug":"the-future-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/2026\/02\/11\/the-future-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2026\/02\/big\/\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a>, a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/shumer.dev\/something-big-is-happening\">long post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/shumer.dev\/\">Matt Shumer<\/a> talking about how capable the latest AI models\/tools have become, and that people should start using these tools to get ahead of the upcoming changes. I have thought about this as well, but have not taken any action yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, The Atlantic has just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/2026\/03\/ai-economy-labor-market-transformation\/685731\/\">published an article<\/a> titled &#8220;America Isn&#8217;t Ready for What AI Will Do To Jobs&#8221; (might be paywalled). I read through this article as well, it raises concerns about big companies slashing workforces as AI does more and more. This theme is touched on in the Matt Shumer post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Bernie Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.6.2025-The-Big-Tech-Oligarchs-War-Against-Workers.pdf\">published a position paper<\/a> in the fall of 2025 on AI impact on workers. Again, the outlook was negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What should people do? What, if anything, should be done about AI, from the regulation standpoint? I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/2026\/02\/11\/the-future-of-ai\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The future of AI\"><p>Via Matt Mullenweg, a link to a long post by Matt Shumer talking about how capable the latest AI models\/tools have become, and that people should start using these tools to get ahead of the upcoming changes. I have thought about this as well, but have not taken any action yet. Interestingly, The Atlantic has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,78,174],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ai","7":"category-business","8":"category-micro-blog","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andysylvester.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}