CEOs rühmen sich öffentlich, ihre Belegschaft mit KI zu reduzieren
https://futurism.com/ceos-boasting-reducing-workforces-ai
CEOs rühmen sich öffentlich, ihre Belegschaft mit KI zu reduzieren
https://futurism.com/ceos-boasting-reducing-workforces-ai
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Don’t need expensive management if you don’t have anyone to manage.
Submission statement: how do you think AI is going to affect unemployment rates?
Previously when automation took jobs, people would move over to jobs that the machines couldn’t do.
What will happen when the machines can do *all* jobs better and/or cheaper than humans?
Or is there something magical and special about humans that could never be done by a machine? (And if so, is that special magical thing enough in demand that it could employ all humans?)
Yes, yes. Keep boasting. You will regret this one day
at this point, (in some way shape or form) tar and feather needs to make its way into the modern era.
AI has been invested in and highly weaponized by those above, against those below, and society as a whole has been left all the poorer.
People need to remember that these leaderships need to be ousted, trying to use economic downturn to justify their sacrificing of people in their lower ranks.
when does it end?
Hyping up share price off the back of peak AI hype.
I’ll be worried when they stop talking about it because that will mean it’s actually impacting roles.
Companies are using AI to reduce their workforce, so their expenses are lower, which would equal to more profit, except it doesn’t because their board of directors will take any profit the CEO manages to squeeze out of the company and keep it for themselves. Eventually, there will be no one to blame when people stop buying their products or services cause AI doesn’t need food, water, shelter or games. A power supply and internet access is all they really need and so long as CEOs think AI is something that will save them millions, they will gladly give AI what it needs without a second thought.
I’m curious to know their response to the fact that they’re removing consumers out the economy which will eventually impact their customer base before you know it.
I really do hope people soon realise that all the benefits that corporations give us are just unintended side effects of their true purpose which is to just create money for investors.
Employment, being good for the economy, creating useful products or services. All these things are just unfortunate annoyances to corporations.
When times are good, companies often just start hiring away. It looks good on some measures as it makes them look like a growing company and most managers prefer a bigger staff than a smaller one. During good economic times, it looks bad for a company to have layoffs to right size an organization so companies will just keep people around until there is a recession. When that happens, every company uses the recession as an excuse to trim payroll. This „every company trimming payroll at the same time“ phenomenon drastically increases the depth of a recession.
IMO, companies are using AI as cover to get rid of people and downsize for profit purposes. Wall Street isn’t going to recognize such a company as struggling right now, just being „pro active“.
They’re talking to their shareholders.
They don’t talk to you. You don’t count.
Wait, aren’t we (formally) tolerating these people purely because they create a lot of jobs by running their companies well? And we don’t want all those jobs gone at once, so we don’t regulate the biggest companies too hard and bail them out should they fail.
So if they reduce their (human) workforce, wouldn’t it mean that them being afloat or doing well is no longer necessary?
Gonna be a lot more Luigis and Devans in the future
That’s fine, that’s what they are supposed to do. Jobs are for production, not created just to employ people. Internet and computers had the same effect on plenty of businesses, it just the new tech also creates new jobs that could not have existed previously. That’s generally how new tech always works, not something unique to AI. These are all just forms of automation and when you automate you don’t need as many workers to do the same job. It’s not more complicated than that.
What most of you don’t get is that when you automate you lower costs and those lower costs allow for new opportunities that did not exist before, hence why we have not automated ourselves out of jobs decades ago.
It’s like you get to the job replacement part of automation and your brains just shut off. You don’t compare it to the history of automation or just apply some rational thought that new tools create new jobs, and you wind up with this same argument every few decades about how Automation X will take all our jobs… yet it never does.
If people are afraid of losing their job to AI, they are likely to accept lower salaries.
Need them to go to more Coldplay concerts… this way we can do with them what they do with workers… cancel them. Difference here is that we would do it more publically with embarrassment to ensure they don’t get another job anytime soon.