When asked what human beings should prepare

When asked what human beings should prepare in this era of AI, one friend answered firmly. "Organizational power." The example is a strike by Hollywood writers' union. They need the power to fight against companies that are trying to cut people under the pretext of AI (as you know, human beings are a "cost" for companies).

In Wired today, there was an article that AI has actually increased the number of people getting fired. It's about the gaming industry, and it's mostly about 2D artists. In 2023 alone, more than 10,000 people have been cut, and companies want to actively utilize AI.

The result is... I don't know yet. AAA game production costs a lot. In this recession, they want to reduce production costs. But is cutting going to solve the problem? No. So people cut it, and they outsource it instead. Cut artists are hired by outsourcing companies...

In fact, it takes two or three years for a problem like this to come to an end. I've tried it, and it doesn't work, or it works. It doesn't work, no matter how much you cut costs, if you don't produce results. The problem is... it might change bad hiring practices in the American gaming industry.

Simply put, as mentioned earlier, there will be more companies that outsource work without hiring full-time employees. If it goes well, there will be more companies that shoot games with AI. Either way, it's not a good outcome for gamers. In fact, in the current atmosphere, I think the entire content industry is getting caught up in the Atari shock.

So the bottom line is, again, the power of organization. The union. Just like the Korean IT union did, there is a growing interest in unionism in the United States. Even if you're not a union, you'll need an organization. In human society, what your boss and others fear the most is the power of a person who moves as a group.

Well, that's because the power is really strong. Human history itself is the history of people who have moved in droves and achieved results. Either by themselves or by force. It's also a power that Koreans know very well. But it's also a power that everyone doesn't try to talk about, and it's a power to hide.

When you search "leadership" in Aladdin, you get thousands of books, and when you search "organizational power" you get only one irrelevant book (...). There are fewer "teamwork" books than organizational power. Even if you know it, it's not easy to organize.

Like in the drama The Owl, people listen to good people and not smart people. But is it easy to be a good person (...). A good reference in this case is the books of Jane McAlibi, the late American labor activist.

He insists we don't seduce people for fun, that we should meet one by one, slowly persuade them, transparently disclose the union negotiation process to get people involved... that it was convincing.