Programmer Humor

And when computers make all management decisions, let us not forget that managers told them to do so, lest we forget whom to hold accountable.

Managers aren’t being held accountable for their management decisions either.

“Oh, I sacked our entire workforce and sold all the company assets, so the figures will look amazing this month.”

“Oh, the figures are down this month, a golden handshake!? Thank you very much.”

Ah, from back when people still had critical thinking faculties in good working order.

Reminds me of Woz’s old saying “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

Executives today:

This means if we put AI somewhere in our decision making, we can no longer be held accountable.

Isn't that exactly why they do use them for management decisions?

Since when are managers held accountable? Is this new?

That's the neat thing, you can deny accountability by blaming the computer's decision

I can only assume the very next slide said, "But having a computer make battlefield targeting decisions is A-OK!" /s

promptly

Very meta

Let's be honest though, most managers, maybe ~60% could be replaced by AI. If you want evidence, think of anyone who goes to meetings, and those who go to meetings all day element 90% of meetings, at minimal. Those jobs shouldn't exist. They are what people like Bezos/Musk believe should not exist.

Now, how does one get from being nothing, and never being in meetings to being someone making money... You can't, unless you know someone. AI is an "American Dream" killer

That's why board executives and business are so excited about it

TBF Management can barely make any management decisions either...

As a US citizen, this logic need to be applied to corperations. The C_Os make all the decisions for the company, the Campany should not be held as responsible for the shitty actions of its Board. The Board should be held accountable for the companies actions be required to served by all the C_Os. I say served, I mean fines and prison time ,in all cases, as a fine is paid personally by the person and time is served aslo bu the person.

I know fine are just a temporary for "legal fo .a price" fine should be paid to hut them so Retirement accounts are taken, future earning are taken, income from salary+bonus at time of infraction are taken, and close loops of off shore accounts

Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

This is sad, not humorous

The computer can't be held accountable, but the programmer and operator can.

I could go on a whole thing about mission rules and command decisions here, but I'm sick of typing for the day.

A complete one-eighty nowadays..."As a highly paid "business" exec I have no ideas...computer, tell me what to do."

"No networked computers!" Colonial fleet high command standing orders

Sorry can’t hear you as AI brrs over hiring applications and performance reviews

But a computer works for "free" so "not being held accountable" is even better!!

Again, weapons without human in the loop needs to be against the Geneva convention, yesterday. Or articles of war , something. This is a tractable problem, that needs attention, now, It will not end well and can actually be (mostly, by honorable armies) fixed.

I generally agree.

Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person. Should we then still trust the humans decision just to have someone who is accountable?

What is the worth of having someone who is accountable anyway? Isn't accountability just an incentive for humans to not just fuck things up? It's also nice for pointing fingers if things go bad - but is there actually any value in that?

Additionally: there is always a person who either made the machine or deployed the machine. IMO the people who deploy a machine and decide that this machine will now be making decisions should be accountable for those actions.