{"id":4412,"date":"2025-07-17T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:56:51","slug":"aijobs-and-poor-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/07\/aijobs-and-poor-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"AI,Jobs, and Poor Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, these are tough decisions. The decisions will come from company owners et al. Those folks are known for &#8220;choosing poorly&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This universal mistake making doesn&#8217;t help the person who becomes unemployed and struggles to provide for their family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a prediction and it is one I make with great confidence: the first few rounds of decisions about replacing humans with software <em>will be wrong<\/em>. There will be much backtracking and changing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,21,51,269,48,271,9,10,58],"tags":[470,143,173,270,170,272,132,133,178],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-change","category-choose","category-decide","category-general-systems-thinking","category-jobs","category-management","category-people","category-systems","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-change","tag-choose","tag-decide","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-jobs","tag-management","tag-people","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}