> Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee.

Why do you think management is so gung-ho about LLMs? Employees are expensive, and laying them off is therefore extremely appealing.

The entire, explicitly stated goal of the AI movement is to produce an ASI, which is better across every metric than a human. Even if you refuse to turn off your brain, the economics of paying you to keep the lights on upstairs aren't going to work out.

This was never going to work out well for the human.

I'm not sure what else to say. You listened to these people speak, what the heck did you expect?