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.
In practice, I’ve heard of companies using AI to “replace” large groups of people, then higher back a few of them with expanded responsibilities and worse pay.
So, they are using it to replace workers, just not in the neat sci-fi sense.
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.
In practice, I’ve heard of companies using AI to “replace” large groups of people, then higher back a few of them with expanded responsibilities and worse pay.
So, they are using it to replace workers, just not in the neat sci-fi sense.
They don’t need AI for that. I was handed the exact same deal in 2008.