"The ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero. Companies are extremely unhappy with their current workforces, and just now—starting in 2023 and 2024—it is actually becoming possible to replace human intelligence tasks with technology."
"It is my belief that companies would rather be doing all the work themselves if they could, as opposed to paying humans to do it. Just the same way that they would rather have machines in a factory than have a bunch of humans doing those machine jobs."
"This whole AI thing isn't really anything special in that frame. It's just the thing that allows us to continue what the Industrial Revolution started. When I say zero, I mean zero workers. As in factory or machine jobs. Like regular working people will be out of a job in the AI boom."
Daniel Miessler, a cybersecurity expert with 25 years of experience at major technology firms, argues that companies will ultimately employ zero human workers as AI technology advances. He frames this not as cynicism but as capitalism's natural progression, comparing AI's displacement of knowledge workers to machinery's replacement of factory workers. Miessler contends that companies prefer machines over humans due to lower costs, greater consistency, and higher reliability. He emphasizes this represents a continuation of the Industrial Revolution's automation trend, now applied to intellectual tasks. According to Miessler, the economic rationale is straightforward: if companies could perform all work through machines, they would, making human employment economically obsolete.
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