Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI - Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
This assumes that people can generally be replaced by AI, which is not true.
AI is an excuse to fire people, and a powerful marketing tool to make a company look better to investors, but it has not had the massive impact techbros want us to believe it has.
Shame, because like everything, it could genuinely be helpful, and instead, we’ve mostly got a bunch of applications no one asked for, and a constant bombardment of dreadful predictions that make regular people go mad.
How is it not true? Just look at translators: during the past few years, most of their jobs just disappeared because AI can do their job just slightly worse than humans but costs much less. Some jobs are easier to replace than others but there certainly are examples of jobs that can be replaced by AI
Look at Klarna, they had brilliant idea to fire support people, because AI can replace them, then after huge lose in customers, they now say “it needs to be balanced”
Past few years? No. MT has existed for well over 20 years now. Also, AI still struggles with interpretation, which is the hard part of translating texts and speech.
Regardless, I said “most” jobs, not all jobs. AI is still by and large the excuse, not the motivation, for layoffs.
This assumes that people can generally be replaced by AI, which is not true.
AI is an excuse to fire people, and a powerful marketing tool to make a company look better to investors, but it has not had the massive impact techbros want us to believe it has.
Shame, because like everything, it could genuinely be helpful, and instead, we’ve mostly got a bunch of applications no one asked for, and a constant bombardment of dreadful predictions that make regular people go mad.
How is it not true? Just look at translators: during the past few years, most of their jobs just disappeared because AI can do their job just slightly worse than humans but costs much less. Some jobs are easier to replace than others but there certainly are examples of jobs that can be replaced by AI
Look at Klarna, they had brilliant idea to fire support people, because AI can replace them, then after huge lose in customers, they now say “it needs to be balanced”
Yeah certainly AI is not able to replace many jobs yet. I am not arguing with that, I am arguing that AI already can replace some jobs
Past few years? No. MT has existed for well over 20 years now. Also, AI still struggles with interpretation, which is the hard part of translating texts and speech.
Regardless, I said “most” jobs, not all jobs. AI is still by and large the excuse, not the motivation, for layoffs.