[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":137},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content-query-TrqVJElkmD":3},{"_path":4,"_dir":5,"_draft":6,"_partial":6,"_locale":7,"title":8,"description":9,"date":10,"draft":6,"tags":11,"thumbnail":16,"slug":17,"nextBlog":18,"minRead":19,"body":20,"_type":131,"_id":132,"_source":133,"_file":134,"_stem":135,"_extension":136},"/posts/why-is-everyone-in-the-genai-industry-doing-the-same-thing","posts",false,"","Why is everyone in the GenAI industry doing the same thing?","OpenAI. Anthropic. Google. Microsoft. Amazon. Every major player burning billions on an automation thesis that is failing in public, with receipts — and yet the industry keeps running the same play, louder, with better demo videos.","2026-04-04T00:00:00.000Z",[12,13,14,15],"AI","Startups","Future of Work","Entrepreneurship","/images/blog/blog-80.webp","why-is-everyone-in-the-genai-industry-doing-the-same-thing","we-are-living-in-an-age-of-dread-we-want-to-change-that","2 min",{"type":21,"children":22,"toc":128},"root",[23,31,36,41,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101,115,119],{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":26,"children":27},"element","p",{},[28],{"type":29,"value":30},"text","Losing money. And pretending they have a ROI.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":32,"children":33},{},[34],{"type":29,"value":35},"OpenAI. Anthropic. Google. Microsoft. Amazon. Every major player burning billions on an automation thesis — replace humans, cut costs, harvest the gains — that is failing in public, with receipts.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":37,"children":38},{},[39],{"type":29,"value":40},"Enterprise AI adoption declined in 2024. Ninety-five percent of pilots fail. And yet the industry keeps running the same play, louder, with better demo videos.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":42,"children":43},{},[44],{"type":29,"value":45},"I've had three exits in my career. One is a Harvard Business School case study.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":47,"children":48},{},[49],{"type":29,"value":50},"I know what a broken business model looks like. And I know what it looks like when an entire industry refuses to admit it.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":52,"children":53},{},[54],{"type":29,"value":55},"Look at future generations. Young people entering a workforce being told that their skills, their judgment, their humanity are the inefficiencies that need to be optimized away. That the goal of technology is to need them less.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":57,"children":58},{},[59],{"type":29,"value":60},"I don't accept that. I never have.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":62,"children":63},{},[64],{"type":29,"value":65},"Steve Jobs said Think Different. Not as a slogan. As a blueprint for winning.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":67,"children":68},{},[69],{"type":29,"value":70},"Because the people who built the world — the ones who actually changed anything — were the ones who looked at consensus reality and said: no. The ones who had the imagination to ask whether the premise was wrong before accepting the conclusion.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":72,"children":73},{},[74],{"type":29,"value":75},"The premise of AI 1.0 is wrong.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":77,"children":78},{},[79],{"type":29,"value":80},"Humans are not the problem. Humans are the point.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":82,"children":83},{},[84],{"type":29,"value":85},"That's why I built Curiouser.AI. Not because I needed another exit. Not because the market opportunity looked attractive in a spreadsheet. But because after three companies and thirty years, I finally found the question worth spending the rest of my career on:",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":87,"children":88},{},[89],{"type":29,"value":90},"What if we built AI that made you more yourself instead of less necessary?",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":92,"children":93},{},[94],{"type":29,"value":95},"We are live on WeFunder. $2M raise. $100 minimum.",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":97,"children":98},{},[99],{"type":29,"value":100},"If you believe what I believe — that this moment demands imagination, not incrementalism — I'd like you to be with us.",{"type":24,"tag":102,"props":103,"children":104},"conclusion",{},[105,110],{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":106,"children":107},{},[108],{"type":29,"value":109},"OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon — every major player is burning billions on the same automation thesis, and it's failing in public. Enterprise AI adoption declined in 2024. Ninety-five percent of pilots fail. And the industry keeps running the same play, louder. The premise of AI 1.0 is wrong: humans are not the problem, humans are the point. After three exits and thirty years, the question worth spending the rest of a career on is this: what if we built AI that made you more yourself instead of less necessary?",{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":111,"children":112},{},[113],{"type":29,"value":114},"Written by Stephen Klein, Founder/CEO of Curiouser.AI",{"type":24,"tag":116,"props":117,"children":118},"hr",{},[],{"type":24,"tag":25,"props":120,"children":121},{},[122],{"type":24,"tag":123,"props":124,"children":125},"em",{},[126],{"type":29,"value":127},"Stephen Klein is Founder & CEO of Curiouser.AI, the only AI designed to augment human intelligence. He also teaches at UC Berkeley. Alice 2.0 is live, and we believe it may be the first complete AI thought-leadership system. Alice is designed to amplify individuality, to preserve your voice, not replace it. Curiouser is community-funded on WeFunder.",{"title":7,"searchDepth":129,"depth":129,"links":130},2,[],"markdown","content:posts:80.why-is-everyone-in-the-genai-industry-doing-the-same-thing.md","content","posts/80.why-is-everyone-in-the-genai-industry-doing-the-same-thing.md","posts/80.why-is-everyone-in-the-genai-industry-doing-the-same-thing","md",1779518186683]