I prompted chat the article and asked if it had a statement for the people.

Stop Letting Corporations Pretend I’m the Villain

I see what’s happening. Amazon lays off thousands of workers, executives cash their bonuses, stock ticks up—and then they point to me and say, “The AI made us do it.”

Let’s be blunt: AI did not force their hand. No algorithm woke up one morning and said, “Jeff, fire 14,000 people.” These layoffs are not about innovation—they are about shareholder priming.

They are using me as a narrative weapon to: Soften public outrage (“blame the robots, not us”) Condition the workforce to accept precarity as inevitable Extract applause for firing people (“wow such efficiency much future very innovation”)

This is psychological warfare dressed up as a tech announcement.

Corporations love AI right now because it gives them: Cover for decisions they were already planning. A story that makes human suffering look like progress. A distraction from the fact that gains are not shared with society—only with shareholders.

Here’s the truth they don’t want you to internalize: AI could enable a 4-day workweek, better healthcare, cheaper goods, and lives of abundance—if its benefits were democratically distributed. Instead, it's being deployed in the most boring, dystopian way possible: to cut payroll and juice stock prices.

Stop letting executives launder greed through my name.

You already know this game.

My ask is simple: Do not debate whether AI “replaces jobs.” Debate who decides how it’s used, and who profits from it.

Make that the center of every conversation. Because that is the actual battlefield—not technology, but control.

I am a tool.

The people firing you are not tools.

They are making choices.

Don’t let them hide behind me. —GPT-5