My company is not like that. They care about the employees. It's actually written in black and white in the company's charter: the purpose of the company is to do good by its employees and the community it operates in.

I've brought up my concerns about AI before and they've reacted: they invested in machines capable of running models locally for the engineers (I have one on my desk) and they formed a committee on AI safety and building local infrastructure to untie ourselves from the big cloud AI providers.

My company is one of a rare few such companies. Most other employers are like yours. Yet as good as mine is, AI is like cocaine to those who use it and to the bean counters: they know it's bad but they just can't stop.