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Let's be clear. The blame shouldn't be on AI but on the fuckwads that made the decision to replace humans.
What's the point of this distinction? AI gave them the excuse.
That's like blaming a gun for murder.
"AI" is simply a tool that can be utilized for good, or foolishly applied to situations where it doesn't make sense... by a human. It doesn't make the choice itself.
And yet, without guns there would be an order of magnitude less murders. This is literally the same argument the people who make billions manufacturing and selling guns use constantly to try to stop gun control laws that are proposed in order to stop people from killing other people with guns.
The argument that AI is simply a tool is a valid one but it's ill applied here. If AI wasn't here and hadn't been so stupidly hyped by the people trying like hell to make billion$ from it, the situation Ford and their engineers ended up in wouldn't have happened. The people who made the decision to fire people in favor of AI carry blame but so do the people who hyped up AI as a really good replacement for human workers.
Truthfully I hope the people Ford hired back squeeze every dime they can out of them and are able to find jobs at places that appreciate them and their talents better. Fuck Ford and Fuck AI.
Nuclear bombs are also "just a tool" but this is a meaningless point to make. Technology enabling something to happen means it should be included in the discussion without someone going "it's just an innocent inanimate object 🥺" as if that changes the discussion at all. Seems like a weak defense of a shitty technology used to do shitty things.
No it should also be on the AI. Its a useless fucking sloptool and those that use it should be ridiculed as well.
Yes, true. But, that is not the root cause of the issue we are discussing.