Until Skynet happens.
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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it
Then regular humans & local/personal AIs will be held accountable for still living.
Wait, what's the change when Skynet goes online again?
You are essentially saying
"Management is essential, replace the common work force with AI"
Well...If I get fired, I will hold you accountable!
your logic is flawed.
employees can be held accountable for their actions.
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.
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I don't think this is wise at all.
Its just people putting into words their wish to be able to punish and appoint blame above their wishes to be pragmatic.
If software is better at something, there is no reason to be mad at that software.
More than that, the idea that the software vendor could not be held liable is farcical. Of course they could be, or the company running said software. In fact, they'd probably get more shit than managers who regularly get away with ridiculous shit.
I mean wage theft is the biggest form of theft for a reason, and none of the wage thieves are machines (or at least most aren't).
Almost everything you said here is wrong. Much of it dangerously so.
I like the part where you have no details or arguments, just vibes.
You don't reason someone out of a position they didnt reason themselves into, and I cannot figure out how to come to conclusions that incorrect. Just leaving a warning; my reply wasn't for you.
You're right about wage theft being common. So that's something.
This is pure pseudo intellectualism because you literally have no argument or point.
You have no reasoning and are projecting that onto me because you can't explain this opinion your feelings have brought you to.
I'm not willing to argue with you. I've argued this with you¹ a thousand times, you are not rational. Everyone who reads your shit knows what I'm talking about. Ask them.
¹perhaps with a different name and face, but otherwise indistinguishable. It gets tedious.
With the amount you've typed you could have easily typed a rationale. The truth is your opinions don't hold weight and have no good rationale. That is all.
A computer can 100% be held accountable. Someone made the decision to put a computer in charge. That person is 100% responsible.
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