I disagree - people’s jobs are not on the line because of AI. They are on the line because of the economy and AI is the excuse/fad of the year so AI is what is blamed. However I maintain it is the economy not AI at fault.
Yes. But if it wasn’t for this particular fad their jobs would not have been on the line because there would be no alternative for their employers.
And of course it is not AI that is doing this. AI, can’t feel, think or do anything. It is simply another tool. Just like production robots have replaced automotive factory personnel on a large scale. And you couldn’t blame the people who lost their job for hating the machines that replaced them. It may not be rational, but it is understandable.
And of course if we are going to try to rationalise things, it is also not because of the economy. It is the people who benefit from replacing people with AI: the CEOs, employers and shareholders who care more about the companies’ profits than the human beings they employ. The people who have dehumanised their employees so much that in their minds, they are simply a tool to be used and discarded without any regard for the lives they are destroying. The reason why these people are the way they are and act the way they do has many factors that are way too complicated for any employee who is about to lose their job to an AI to understand.
But if it wasn’t for this particular fad their jobs would not have been on the line because there would be no alternative for their employers.
There have been many layoffs over the years. Laying people off because the economy isn’t good is nothing new, and AI did nothing to make it more or less possible.
If the economy was really good AI would have been used not to replace people but to make them more productive thus earning the company even more money.
I disagree - people’s jobs are not on the line because of AI. They are on the line because of the economy and AI is the excuse/fad of the year so AI is what is blamed. However I maintain it is the economy not AI at fault.
Yes. But if it wasn’t for this particular fad their jobs would not have been on the line because there would be no alternative for their employers.
And of course it is not AI that is doing this. AI, can’t feel, think or do anything. It is simply another tool. Just like production robots have replaced automotive factory personnel on a large scale. And you couldn’t blame the people who lost their job for hating the machines that replaced them. It may not be rational, but it is understandable.
And of course if we are going to try to rationalise things, it is also not because of the economy. It is the people who benefit from replacing people with AI: the CEOs, employers and shareholders who care more about the companies’ profits than the human beings they employ. The people who have dehumanised their employees so much that in their minds, they are simply a tool to be used and discarded without any regard for the lives they are destroying. The reason why these people are the way they are and act the way they do has many factors that are way too complicated for any employee who is about to lose their job to an AI to understand.
There have been many layoffs over the years. Laying people off because the economy isn’t good is nothing new, and AI did nothing to make it more or less possible.
If the economy was really good AI would have been used not to replace people but to make them more productive thus earning the company even more money.
Machines also kept replacing car factory workers even when the economy was thriving, so that’s not it.
I’m pretty sure it’s human greed.