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KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months agoGood points.
One problem with replacing everything with AI that people don’t think about: middle managers will start to be replaced too. There’s no way to ask a LLM “why did you do that”? Fewer people will need to be managed.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It seems unwise to replace managers with LLMs because LLMs don’t understand the real world implications of their responses, they don’t have awareness of the real world, they simply give you often used language patterns, which can be innacurate or biased based on flawed human data. But it would be a great way for sketchy human executives to offload responsibility for unethical actions and feign objectivity or uninvolvement, so I don’t doubt they will try.
Even if we imagine a perfect AI that does takes into account every objective fact and philosophical argument, that still leaves the question of how will the people who get replaced in all these intellectual, artistic and service jobs will make a living. That’s not an answer that technology will give us, that will a nasty political situation.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, you misunderstood. The managers are fired because there’s fewer people to manage.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That makes sense too. Overall, a lot of people’s jobs are threatened, but I don’t think “learn AI” is going to cut it this time. Not for all these people.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
LLMs don’t, but specialised AI trained for that specific purpose would.