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    Der neue Xbox-Chef macht sich Sorgen um die Geburtenrate und sagt, dass KI uns retten wird


    Der neue Xbox-Chef macht sich Sorgen um die Geburtenrate und sagt, dass KI uns retten wird

    https://kotaku.com/xbox-microsoft-asha-sharma-birthrates-ai-fertility-2000672756

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    4. elmatador12 on

      The amount of employers worried about birth rates is really fucking weird to me. It’s basically them saying “we aren’t sure if we will have consumers or employees in the future so we make more money. Please have kids!”

      Maybe, I don’t know, make the country a place that actually is a good and affordable place to raise kids?

      How can companies help with that? Stop worrying about the investors only and focus on the consumers and employees. Higher pay, cheaper products. It’s not a hard calculation, and big companies can afford to do it but they aren’t willing to have their profits dip by 1% because they’re worried about investors.

    6. Tonberryc on

      Late stage Capitalism went from depressing to stupid really quickly. Are we really so locked into the public shareholder model that we’d rather worry about declining birthrates than just adapting the business model, or is this just one last desperate attempt to keep the AI bubble from popping for another few months?

    7. shawndw on

      Translation: *Investment capital is drying up so we need the government to chuck money at us.*

    8. UnreliablePotato on

      Another tech sociopath. It’s like they’re all from the same cult.

    9. MrWonderfulPoop on

      People need to disconnect, meet people in social environments, and play Hide the Weenie.

      Some answers don’t need to rely on tech.

    10. ttpharmd on

      I would honestly think AI would have a negative impact on birth rates because people are expecting it to take their jobs. Most people don’t want to create another life if there is a chance we cannot afford it.

    13. Vincent_VonDiego on

      There are plenty of babies we just have to allow the family to immigrate.

    14. no_sight on

      I honestly didn’t think the head of Xbox would need to comment on birthrates

    15. Ncav2 on

      Just make living affordable dummies. I’m having my first
      (and probably only) kid soon and daycare can run up to $2500 a month, on top of the crazy housing prices.

    17. Ancient-Bat8274 on

      Sorry best I can do is not starve and attempt to afford any shelter. Kids? In this economy?

    18. Mr_Baloon_hands on

      This is the biggest lie in tech. They aren’t creating AI to solve a workplace problem they are trying to eliminate at much of the workforce as possible.

    22. Mutex70 on

      So she took a look at her business, realized their pricing model doesn’t support what consumers want and decided:

      „No, it’s not us, it’s society that’s to blame“

      WTF is this dystopian bullshit?!?

      P.S. Her number regarding „the average birthrate in the ’90s when we were growing up was, like, 3“ is just insane to anyone who knows anything about the 90’s. Why is she talking about subjects she obviously has no clue about?

    25. HotMachine9 on

      You work for a company that sells technology and software.

      Leave the government to worry about birthrates.

      Its bloody weird all these private entities asking people to give birth despite also actively benefitting from every sort of tax cut that prevents society from supporting young families.

    26. twenafeesh on

      Yeah, low birth rates surely have *nothing* to do with the fact that nobody can afford a house and either daycare or keeping one parent at home. That’s just not tenable for most people these days. To say nothing of impending unemployment from AI (maybe?), global warming, inflation of food prices… Good for them for thinking ahead and not bringing kids into crummy circumstances. 

      Why do these out-of-touch executives even have an opinion on getting other people to make babies? It’s creepy. 

    28. Lost_Ad610 on

      Nothing gets me in the baby making mood as much as affordable housing and livable wages does 🥵

    30. Surrounded-by_Idiots on

      She’s right. AI will fuck us properly to solve the birth rate issue.

    31. Odd_Secret9132 on

      There’s an irony to the capitalists worrying about birthrates, since they created the conditions for it.

      Their constant push to monetize and commodify everything – housing, education, etc… while intentionally depressing wages but expecting more employee dedication. People are entering the workforce with debt, meanwhile the CoL means that two incomes are required to have any semblance of a decent life; who has the time or money to raise children?

      Adding to that the draconian policies of some employers when it comes to children/family. I have a sibling that’s only allowed to work from home if the children aren’t there – makes it difficult say during storm days when the physical office is closed but so the daycare.

    32. psychoacer on

      Worried about not having enough slave labor while also firing thousands of people. That’s the level of intelligence running Microsoft right now

    33. Trekfull on

      Maybe give people a reason to have more kids, and they will. AI won’t solve this problem, if anything, it will make the issue worse.

    35. McMacHack on

      What if we just put AI in the consumers, starting in the womb. Will that also need the planet’s entire supply of DDR5 RAM?

    36. OK_Commodor64 on

      Everyone please go see the new movie “Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die” for some perspective

    37. fardaw on

      The „us“ that will be saved is clearly a very specific group of people this person belongs to.

    38. mr_evilweed on

      „Please continue to make future consumers even if we are developing the systems that will ensure they will never have jobs, and we are opposing any social safety nets that would allow them to survive without jobs.“

    39. helpprogram2 on

      Why do all these CEOs suddenly feel like we need to know who they are and their opinions

    41. Squibbles01 on

      AI people are just a different kind of human. Just absolute crazy people.

    42. clutchy_boy on

      So now AI is gonna fuck my wife and leave me to raise the bastard half-clank!?

    43. Vortesian on

      There is no “fertility decline”. These people just think the “wrong people” are having children.

    45. jkman61494 on

      Nothing says popping out kids like eliminating 50 million jobs in the next year which will happen according to the lady worried about birth rates

      Also if she’s worried about it, shouldnt she be getting pregnant?

    48. Megumindesuyo on

      We really should stop giving CEO positions to business majors, they just know how to bullshit management and share holders and have no actual clue what they are talking about.

    49. Dreaminginslowmotion on

      Having kids only happens when people feel secure about their work, fiscal life, and future / security (or sometimes accidentally).

      Right now the world is the farthest thing from any of that.

      Fix how AI ISN’T being used to replace us and you’ll at least solve a fraction of the overall issue (home ownership, job security, climate change, looming potential for war)

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