Pretending LLMs are actually Artificial Intelligence, AI is no longer a far-off concept—it’s here, reshaping our daily lives, our workplaces, and our culture in ways both exciting and unsettling. In this talk, we’ll explore the real impacts of AI: how it is transforming everyday jobs, disrupting tech careers, and raising questions about whether society is ready—or willing—to accept impending pace of change. We’ll dive into the technical underpinnings—how large-scale models are trained, the infrastructure required to run them, the basics of agents and MCPs, and the limits of current architectures—and connect those details to broader impacts. Along the way, we’ll examine the darker undercurrents: the wave of layoffs across industries, prolonged job search times despite moderate unemployment, the potential AI investment bubble echoing the dot-com crash, and human resistance to technology supplanting people and the discomfort of relying too heavily on machines in everyday life.
But this isn’t a doomsday narrative. Together, we’ll cut through the hype and fear to uncover practical insights that individuals can use to navigate their own careers and decisions in the age of AI. From understanding where the real opportunities lie to recognizing the risks of overdependence on fragile promises, this session will give you tools to think critically about your future in an AI-shaped world and what you should do now to prepare for it.
