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MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] 4 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

I absolutely believe bullshit jobs are threatened by AI, I'm just skeptical about simulations being produced by pro-business private schools that have every incentive to flatter their corporate sponsors. MIT has received over two hundred million dollars of investments from IBM for AI research and is seeking an additional billion dollars to build out its AI campus. They're beneficiaries of the bubble.

They have a lot of incentives to lie, here. It sounds like they just built a simulation to tell them what they wanted to hear.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's going to be a self fulfilling prophecy. After all, these studies are produced to convince CEOs to make certain types of business decisions. Their whole point is to convince execs to make the types of policy decisions that they outline.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's why I wanted to highlight the absurdity of "We made an AI to tell us AI is good!" because it shows their nature: a snake eating its own ass.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago

    Oh yeah, the whole thing is absurd of course. In my opinion, AI is just exposing the fact that capitalism is a system of engineered scarcity which forces people to do useless work in order to continue existing.

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