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IBM to replace thousands of employees with artificial intelligence: what does it mean for the future of work?
Gianluca Cobucci
May 2, 2023
Tech giant IBM plans to stop hiring people for positions it believes can be handled by artificial intelligence
IBM CEO, Arvind krishna, he stated in ainterview with Bloomberg that 30% of the approximately 26.000 non-customer jobs could be replaced by AI, equal to approximately 7.800 jobs lost. According to Krishna, HR positions will be among the first to be outsourced to AI. However, jobs focused on customer interaction and software development are not expected to be impacted in the coming years.
This move by IBM raises a number of concerns about the future of work and the impact of AI on the workforce. On the one hand, AI can improve efficiency and reduce business costs, but on the other hand, this could lead to job losses for human workers. Additionally, there are concerns about fairness and diversity in the use of AI in employee selection and management. If hiring and firing decisions are based only on AI, there could be a risk of discrimination and exclusion of some categories of workers.
IBM's decision to replace thousands of employees with AI raises many questions about the future of work and the impact of AI on the workforce. It is important for companies to find a balance between business efficiency and the protection of human workers, and that attention is paid to fairness and diversity in the use of AI in employee selection and management. The use of AI in human resource management activities can lead to numerous benefits, including the automation of personnel selection procedures, employee performance evaluations and training and career development planning. Furthermore, AI can improve business efficiency and reduce costs, allowing employees to focus on higher value-added activities.
However, it's important to note that AI is not a panacea for all business problems. AI can improve efficiency and productivity, but it cannot completely replace human labor. Humans remain irreplaceable in managing customer relationships and solving complex problems that require intelligence and creativity.
It has begun!! About time!
'but it cannot completely replace human labor." - But replacing human labour is the whole idea of using robots. What's the point of using robots if we are still going to use human labour alongside them doubling the cost and still no improvement in productivity? The whole idea of using robots is exactly to replace human labour to increase productivity and lower the cost so we get a bit of break in inflation!! You want to have triple-digit interest rate and still have 50% inflation rate?? Cuz that's what's going to be if we stick with human labour. This is exactly the fear during the industrial revolution when human workers were getting replaced by machines but look at it now, 90% of the manufacturing is done by machines and we are all ok.
"If hiring and firing decisions are based only on AI, there could be a risk of discrimination and exclusion of some categories of workers." -discrimination?? I thought robots are incapable of emotions and feelings so how could they discriminate? Based on what? Merit and ability and what's best for the job?? LOL So finally we are assessing candidates with the criteria of what they should be and that's discrimination? LOL
People need to get used to it. Eventually we will ALL be replaced by robots just like depicted in the movie "I, Robot". Anybody who hasn't watched that movie should watch it now cuz that's our future eventually. That's the whole idea, with robots doing everything to catapult productivity. Productivity is everything. The country that has the best, most advanced and most efficient robots are going to have the most $$ and be ahead of everybody just like what happened with the Industrial Revolution. The West is still ahead today because they invented machines powered by relatively efficient energy sources and put them to use to mass-produce everything back 2 centuries ago. China has become the 2nd largest economy in the world from a third-world country just 20 years ago because of its large population that it harnessed to serve as cheap labour to mass-produce everything. We in the West don't have the population so the only thing that we have to compensate to increase our productivity is robotics.
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