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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 211 points 10 months ago (20 children)

I couldn't have said it better myself. All of these companies firing people are doing it because they want to fire people. AI is just a convenient excuse. It's RTO all over again.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 112 points 10 months ago (11 children)

It’s not going to be a convenient excuse. There are swaths of C-Suites who genuinely believe they can replace their workforce with ai.

They’re not correct but that won’t stop them from trying.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 87 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The irony is that AI will probably be able to do the jobs of the c-suite before a lot of the jobs down the ladder.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Need more news articles pitching this idea to shareholders.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 10 months ago

I mean c-suite jobs (particularly CEO), are usually primarily about information coordination and decision-making (company steering). That's exactly what AI has been designed to do for decades (make decisions based on inputs and rulesets). The recent advancements mean they can train off real CEO decisions. The meetings and negotiation part of being a c-suite (the human-facing stuff) might be the hardest part of the job for AI to replicate.

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