Companies are now spending more on AI than on the humans they employ and nobody has a plan for what comes next.
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-05-25
A reporter's months-long investigation finds that US companies are now spending more on AI than on their human workforce, with an Nvidia VP confirming the trend is more extreme than publicly understood.
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Topics: ai-labor-economicscorporate-ai-spendingai-workforce-displacement
Claims
- Companies are now spending more on AI than on the humans they employ.
- A reporter who spent months tracking corporate AI spending found the numbers more extreme than most people realize.
- An Nvidia VP provided on-record commentary corroborating the scale of the spending shift.
- No coherent plan exists at the corporate or policy level for managing this transition.
Key quotes
Companies are now spending more on AI than on the humans they employ and nobody has a plan for what comes next.