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June 21, 2025: Shop Talk Monthly Brief on AI × Workforce × Industry
Real-world signals from machines, makers, and lawmakers.
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June 21, 2025
Every two weeks we sift the noise and surface the signals on AI and work. From boardrooms to shop floors, see what builders, lawmakers, and line operators are really saying about the future of jobs. Skim the receipts, judge the reality. Tell us what you think. Let’s dive in →
💻 Form Tech
Tweets, clips, and takes from the builders and investors pushing AI into everyday tools and products.
Very interesting to think about. Job = bundle of tasks + glue. Probably a bunch of other variables involved, e.g. the number of tasks, how long each task is (e.g. METR-like notion of task length ~= difficulty), how contextual it is, how high reliability it needs, whether it can
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
12:41 AM • Jun 20, 2025
I think this assessment is correct, and I’ll add that people are really bad at predicting cultural capture which is different than regulatory capture.
Cultural capture is when everyone in a given industry is incentivized to empower themselves, and to adopt a new technology in a
— Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle)
2:54 PM • Jun 20, 2025
AI is coming fast to eliminate all of the jobs, also Jensen Huang knows that it will bring massive unemployment but not telling the truths. Thats at least my take.
I cant think of any scenario where AI will create more jobs than it will make useless.
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus)
1:18 PM • Jun 19, 2025
AI will shrink Amazon’s workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says sent a memo to today.
Amazon is embedding generative AI across its internal operations. In its fulfillment network AI assists with inventory placement, demand forecasting and robots in warehouses.
They also
— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai)
7:31 PM • Jun 17, 2025
🏛️ From Policy
Statements and sound bites from the officials and wonks steering how AI meets jobs, wages, and national strategy.
Barack Obama: AI will cause massive shifts in labor markets
"This AI revolution is not made up, its not overhyped, (...) I guarantee you, you are going to see shifts in white-collar-works as a consequence of what these AI tools can do. There is coming more disruption and it will
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus)
8:01 AM • Jun 21, 2025
Pope to Italian Bishops: “Artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, data economy and social media are profoundly transforming our perception and our experience of life. In this scenario, human dignity risks becoming diminished or forgotten, substituted by functions, automatism,
— Rich Raho (@RichRaho)
10:20 AM • Jun 17, 2025
Yang warns that AI’s rapid advancement—driven by an arms race between companies and nations like China—is outpacing society’s ability to adapt.
While firms accelerate toward profit and power, average workers (like truck drivers or recent grads) are left displaced and
— Wes Roth (@WesRothMoney)
4:00 PM • Jun 19, 2025
⚙️ From the Manufacturing Floor
On-the-ground signals from plants and job sites—new hires, fresh tooling, and worker chatter you will not see on social media.
Rockwell says factories are turning to AI to address skills gaps, labor shortages jsonline.com/story/money/bu… via @journalsentinel#rockwellautomation#rockwellAI#AImanufacturing#rockwellskillsgap#AIlaborshortages
— Rick Barrett (@rbarrettJS)
10:45 AM • Jun 6, 2025
