If you were working a corporate job in the mid-to-late-2000’s, you’ve probably experienced “offshoring.”

The leadership team brings in a bunch of new remote employees in a country with much cheaper labor costs and less stringent labor laws that yours. They ask you to help train them and teach them everything you know so they can “get up to speed quickly.”

And then six months later, they lay off your whole team and keep the offshore workers. You trained your replacement.

If it didn’t happen to you directly, you almost certainly saw it at a company you worked at, or had it happen to a friend.

This is an article about AI.