This is so dystopian! Utopia or sad future?

Billboards proclaiming "Stop Hiring Humans" are appearing across major US cities, from San Francisco to New York City. These advertisements are from Artisan, a San Francisco-based startup specializing in virtual artificial intelligence sales representatives. Artisan's focus is on outbound sales automation, including lead generation, cold emailing, list-building, and prospecting, signaling "The Era of AI Employees Is Here."

This campaign marks a shift from AI as a support tool to AI as a direct replacement for human sales roles, unlike earlier AI marketing efforts.