Let’s talk about something that doesn’t matter supposedly—early AI-related layoffs. Or better yet, let’s talk about how sure we are that they don’t matter. I just scrolled through a whole thread of confident hot takes that basically read: “He probably deserved it.”

Maybe you all know what I don’t. That’s possible. But a post was going around again of a guy who was let go. The replies read like a sentencing. Cold. Final. Punctuated with frost.

Maybe he did deserve it. Maybe they all do. But we don’t know what happened. We rarely do. That doesn’t stop us from pretending we do. We exempt tech from scrutiny, side with power, and scroll on. No nuance. No context. Just the next thing.

What scares me isn’t AI’s potential. It’s our reaction to it. It’s the apathy. The reflex. The ease with which we turn away from each other. The way we accept suffering as some kind of progress tax. We watch people get chewed up and say, “Well, that’s how it goes.”

We have a history of using technology not to save ourselves, but to destroy more efficiently. We’re not afraid of what the machines might become—we’re afraid of looking in the mirror and realizing we already became them. Efficient. Unblinking. Unquestioning.

Are we actually building the future? Or are we improvising a slow disaster while whispering, “It’s fine”?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen us be our own worst enemy. Seven separate moments in the last two days alone—just from my personal life. It’s like we throw a boomerang and then act shocked when it breaks our nose.

And instead of dealing with that, we project. We invent Darth Vader. We warn of Skynet. We say, “Watch out for the Terminator.” But maybe we are the Terminator. We built it. We deployed it. We handed it someone’s job and told them, “Sorry, that’s progress.”

We knew what it would do to that person. Their family. Their community. Their economy. We did it anyway. And when that person dared to say, “What the hell?” we paused just long enough to say something clever about breaking eggs—and then kicked him in the head.

Our apathy isn’t just sad. It’s terrifying because we already know the evil enabled time and again by it. Concentration camps never stopped. Beheadings, torture, slavery didn’t end with the civil war of America. It’s all happening right now. I don’t know that AI will hav eterrible results I think in the short term it’s hard to see a clean path and I don’t hear anyone trying to convince me so if nobody is passionate about their plan there must not be one. So no, I’m not afraid of laser-toting robots on some James Cameron battlefield.

I’m afraid of people walking past suffering without even slowing down. And the Christians among us will be indistinuishable so don’t pin your hopes there. “That’s unfortunate,” before disappearing into brunch. They may even make eye contact and offer a prayer.

What do they say now? “Get a job.” Every job forum is the same conversation about how tough it is out there. Well If getting a job is hard when your hair is combed and face isn’t chapped with sunburn what will your odds be of the 2nd team interview when you reak of piss and your pants are held up by a rope? Where do they even put their belongings? They have to stash them and hope they don’t get robbed. It’s laughably stupid when you give a few minutes thought but most haven’t.

I don’t trust they’ve actually thought this through either. That same ignorance and demonstrated apathy ensures we’ll start caring when it’s 5 minutes past too late and are scrambling to sober up Nancy Pelosi to what save the day?

“Abundance” I hear a lot. Ok great robots can shit out some protein paste baby food ooze for us that’s great. Will they be paying tuition, manufacturing diapers, hanging a new roof, who pays for the land the house the robots supposedly build for us in the tiny home/pod factory? And why does the half baked answers all have a certain communist vibe?

Look I’m not negative about AI. Any more than I am guns. It’s just a thing, a tool, an instrument. With the power to be used for many purposes and in this case enrish and protect humanity in ways we’ve struggled with for all of time. Making decisions logically, being objective and honest, evaluatiing performance of politicians without the bias. This technology can promote critical thinking at scale and even enforce it. Humans become logical Vulcans? An end to fake news and manipulation? A justice system better than blind, it sees everything it should and can throw out anything it shouldnt as just voltage and transistors and capacitors and bit complements. It can also go terribly wrong. As tends to happen from “improper planning”.

So this isn’t about being negative on AI. I’ve always been excited about this moment I just thought maybe we’d tmie it better and in sync with electing more Thomas Massie MIT types. Today the people in charge—or the loudest voices in the room—aren’t empathetic enough or honest enough to spend ten minutes trying to understand the homeless explosion nor finding a solution. So I don’t trust they’ll be of any value when the unemployment rate soars to 20 or 30%? Solutions and problems have a many to many relationship so there are answers, I just don’t hear the conversation.

That’s I think what to worry about. Not AI. Us.

Whatever the caliber we are always the finger on the trigger.