Slaves to the Machine. And We Built It Ourselves.

You have been clicking on traffic lights for fifteen years.You thought you were proving your humanity. You were building the AI that is coming for your job.This week's Sunday Signal goes deep on the most uncomfortable truth in technology right now: the machine did not take your work. You gave it the training data, the workflow, and the permission. Without knowing. Without consent. And in many cases, while being praised for doing it.Three stories this week. The reCAPTCHA case: how 819 million hours of unpaid human labour, worth at least $6.1 billion in wages never paid, helped build a self-driving car business now valued at $126 billion. The Great Compression: how the entire offshore software industry spent 2023 and 2024 teaching AI to do their jobs, and what the collapse of that two-trillion-dollar model means for developers in Bangalore, Manila, and Bucharest. And the Jensen Huang diagnosis: the single most important career distinction anyone in knowledge work will hear this decade, and the six-month roadmap for ending up on the right side of it.Plus the Sunday Signal Tech and AI Layoff Tracker for week 14. Seventy-four thousand, five hundred roles in 2026. Eight thousand, eight hundred gone in the last seven days.Subscribe to the free newsketter here: https://newsletter.djr.ai