Bosses are becoming increasingly scared of AI because it might actually adversely affect their jobs too

Date:
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:35:06 +0000

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All levels set to be affected by AI, report finds.

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A new report from AND Digital suggests hundreds of CEOs based in the United Kingdom are now afraid of artificial intelligence (AI) taking their jobs, but remain on the fence about exactly what to do next.

Of the 600 surveyed, nearly half (43%) felt their jobs were at risk, while
76% of them have decided to push on with opening Pandoras Box and have launched training bootcamps in the technology.

A similar proportion (44%) said they felt their employees werent ready to handle AI adoption, and just over a third (34%) wanted to ban it. However,
45% admitted to using AI tools to do their work for them and, in the reports words, often passing the work off as their own. The inevitable death march of progress

To be clear, AI as we know it is a ridiculous conceit in that its not a sentient machine or anything, youre just training one on copious amounts of often-copyrighted data - whats often known as machine learning - and asking
it to spit things back out. It should not be bought into as a cult, nor as a technological advancement to just let happen.

However, its egregiously disingenuous for executives to say to their
employees we dont think youre ready for AI, prohibiting employees from using it, and casting aspersions on their own use of it , and then go actually, yeah, I use it to get stuff done.

Its only now that realitys setting in - that machine learning is proving that executives are often surplus to requirement - that employers are looking to level the playing field with bootcamps. Its a pathetic, extremely obvious move.

Working culture has form for this rules for thee stuff, and being averse to change when anyone lower in the pecking order stands to benefit.

On top of innumerable return to the office, wage slaves, or so help me orders post-pandemic, the latest example is probably Dell, a manufacturer also
craven for AI PC market share , claiming remote workers wont be put up for promotion . We'd wholly suggest that you buy a WFH laptop instead. Analysis: Just desserts?

Youll have to forgive me, then, if Im not at all moved by the fact that the amount of energy put into marketing machine learning as AI is now backfiring on those at the top. It was they who pushed it as a solution to non-existent problems in the workplace just because of a post-pandemic slump in the PC sales market .

Yeah, yeah, thats some withering commentary, but when not even the people behind the push know what the practical applications of AI should even be , its hard not to see AI as a waste of time and energy.

If rich executives are supposed to have gotten their millions by being
smarter than us, could they not have foreseen a risk to their livelihoods? Artificial intelligence: truly the great leveller. More from TechRadar Pro Lack of AI skills is putting public sector projects at risk A tech enthusiast put an Nvidia RTX GPU in a 12-bay NAS and added an AI chatbot to interact
with the data The World Wide Web just turned 35 years old and please, stop calling it the Internet



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