AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers

Re:AI will replace middle management before robots replace h... by wruza on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:45AM (#33272513)

We don’t have to blame AI for metrics that do not include comfort and job satisfaction. The effects you described are not inherent to AI but to goals that upper people impose on lower people through a pyramid of management. Everyone there cares about profits and efficiency, nobody gives a fuck about workers living on the edge. Maybe stripping this paradigm naked is a good thing and a way to something else.

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Re:AI will replace middle management before robots replace h... by willnonya on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:52AM (#33273269)

You've reduced a large swath of humanity to propaganda talking points.

The key point you fail to grasp is that this isn't going to be a stripping back but rather a consentration of power and focus around those you vilify. There will be less transparency and fewer chances for humanity to intervene on its behalf.

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Re:AI will replace middle management before robots replace h... by wruza on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:00AM (#33274009)

I’m aware of this point, but I don’t believe that our traditional system is based on a personal desire to make someone suffer. You see those in power as all-knowing all-controlling evil beings. I see them as the best at flimsily balancing on a shitty system that is built-in/inherent to humans. Only non-human rule can change it, imo, similar to how chess, go and starcraft bots can change how the game is played. Maybe your prediction is correct, but chances that we can master business “ourselves” to optimize it for human comfort and dignity are basically zero.

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