Posted on 01/28/2019 9:58:13 AM PST by C19fan
Theyll never admit it in public, but many of your bosses want machines to replace you as soon as possible.
I know this because, for the past week, Ive been mingling with corporate executives at the World Economic Forums annual meeting in Davos. And Ive noticed that their answers to questions about automation depend very much on who is listening.
In public, many executives wring their hands over the negative consequences that artificial intelligence and automation could have for workers. They take part in panel discussions about building human-centered A.I. for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Davos-speak for the corporate adoption of machine learning and other advanced technology and talk about the need to provide a safety net for people who lose their jobs as a result of automation.
But in private settings, including meetings with the leaders of the many consulting and technology firms whose pop-up storefronts line the Davos Promenade, these executives tell a different story: They are racing to automate their own work forces to stay ahead of the competition, with little regard for the impact on workers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Of course he was wrong. People are more than cogs in a machine - machines became the cogs in larger machines... People are talking the same way now - which is nuts.
There will always be new challenges, new jobs that employ millions of people in fields that don't even exist today.
Any system that denigrates individuality and liberty is unjust, and it and its advocates have no complaint coming for what we'll do to them.
Do you think that it a coincidence that the Dems are pushing for $15 an hour for minimum wage and the big tech companies own the Dem party? When human labor becomes to expensive to afford, big companies will now have a handy excuse to bring in robots and AI.
Skynet, terminator, resident evil their favs
My guess, instead of govts taxing labor they will tax production, and people will get a stipend. And these people will get obese watching TV 24/7.
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