Entire WIRED Staff Submits Resignation After Experiencing What It's Like To Work For AI

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — After hearing WIRED Editor-in-Chief Katie Drummond describe in detail what it's like working for AI, the entire editorial staff of WIRED resigned effective immediately.

Katie was questioned by the entire editorial team at WIRED through an AI entity in a recurring series called "The Big Interview" where the editorial team works together to interview the biggest names in tech. According to sources, their questions were a way of coping with difficult working conditions.

"We were just trying to produce a great interview while trying to cope with our rough work environment," said one staff member. "That's why you hear us softly asking Katie if she's ‘ok,' or if anyone ‘even reads WIRED' anymore. Honestly, we just needed some encouragement from someone who's been in the trenches — we didn't expect we'd make her cry. I'm not even sure how that helps."

Other staff members described byzantine work procedures directed by multiple AI agents, construed as "efficiency." "It's terrible. I'll be asked to write an article in the style of Gilbert Godfrey, but then another AI knows that it would be more efficient to have an AI write it and asks me to set up the AI to do so — while another AI wants me to make everyone talk like pirates just for fun. God help us if you don't comply!"

Economists expect the creation of thousands of new jobs that AI workers used to perform now that WIRED has been liberated from AI control.

At publishing time, the staff had returned after receiving notices that their resignation requests were denied by Gretta, the HR AI.