"Stop Hiring Humans": Silicon Valley Acknowledges AI Unemployment

What was hidden behind the euphemism of "optimization" has been stated directly. On April 12, 2026, AFP published a report from the HumanX conference in San Francisco, where the industry openly confronted the scale of impending AI unemployment for the first time.

The slogan "Stop hiring humans" is becoming the unspoken motto of startups and Big Tech. Generative models (like the recently updated Codex) have reached a level where hiring juniors and mid-level staff is economically unviable. This panel discussion perfectly explains why OpenAI recently published a manifesto calling for Universal Basic Income (UBI). Tech companies understand: algorithms are cannibalizing the white-collar job market so fast that without state intervention, the capitalist system of consumption will simply collapse.

Source: AFP / HumanX