What do you say to that? I usually start by talking about whether there's any economic basis for keeping the AI servers running. AI is - by far - the money-losingest venture in human history, and it's practically impossible to overstate just how *bad* the AI business is. Not only does AI have terrible unit economics, those unit economics are getting *worse* over time:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/#until-morale-improves
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