Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Replace people with AI? Cut human jobs? Deciders at companies are deciding these things. It is unfortunate, but deciders at companies have a history of choosing poorly.

Replace people and their jobs with AI. Think of the benefits. Save money. Better the bottom line. And remove some of those pesky people whose major contribution is giving me a headache.

On the other hand, these are tough decisions. The decisions will come from company owners et al. Those folks are known for “choosing poorly” as someone once said in a movie. Well, we all choose poorly the first time we choose. We all choose poorly many times we choose.

This universal mistake making doesn’t help the person who becomes unemployed and struggles to provide for their family.

Here is a prediction and it is one I make with great confidence: the first few rounds of decisions about replacing humans with software will be wrong. There will be much backtracking and changing.