MADE IN THE USA: Why AI is not about to replace jobs (its actually the opposite) & why AI needs to happen in the U.S. needed to get this off my chest so im dumping my thoughts here between .@xai Colossus II data center, @OpenAI stargate & Meta's Hyperion alone thats 500,000 new jobs created over the next 5 years (at least) a very common take i see is "AI will take people's jobs" this is a lazy argument imo job roles will evolve or become entirely new jobs that we cannot even conceive of today because the tech is still early these 500K data center jobs is the start of that trend. do you think these workers will have 10+ years experience creating bleeding-edge AI GPU centers? no. they (like everyone during the industrial revolution) will learn from scratch and become experts over time then they'll take these skills into the next new role AI inevitably creates and so forth. these workers will be seen as infinitely more valuable than whatever manufacturing job they had before because AI companies like Meta, XAI are willing to fork out trillions of dollars to get the job done. MADE IN THE USA a consistent observation between all these expensive shiny data centers is they're all being built in the motherland why? isnt it cheaper to outsource to china, india?? yeah but that would be a dumb mistake Its imperative that the infrastructure that determines whether a country’s economy lives or dies resides in THAT country and is safe-guarded from bad actors imagine if china hacked your AI server and injected it with false propaganda that got blasted to 350M americans, thats the kind of power that starts wars. the 2nd (& more exciting) point is building this in america means AMERICANS are most primed to benefit from the upside of AI because they can be involved in every layer of the stack economically and socially instead of outsourcing it to 3rd-world nations. this all comes at the not-so-coincidental announcement of the US gov's AI action plan which explicitly calls out 2 things: - no more legal redtape, go crazy - this sh*t needs to be built in america and we're willing to pay you to do it the tax incentives the gov is giving these companies to build their data centers in the US is crazy. so yeah.. AI isnt going to replace jobs, it'll do the opposite when a single country owns the entire tech stack of the magical genie in the bottle we're going to see most of the fruits-of-labor... appear in the US.