Cory DoctorowThis profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:
Charlie Stross@pluralistic The problem with AI is that it doesn't suffer from Baumol's Cost Disease, so there's a strong incentive in capitalism to use it to replace labour in previously-non-automatable areas. Even though it's highly fallible, and using it as an excuse to cut labour costs means abolishing the capability to detect when it's silently running off the rails.
jakob.pxi@cstross @pluralistic abolishing "bullshit jobs" in the process and upending the privilege of a managerial class whose thusly leveraged self interest to preserve the social order has been instrumental to upholding the exploitative practice in the first place? Careful what you wish for, capitalist fever dream.
tolortslubor@jakob @cstross @pluralistic If an #AIexecutives can produce better financial results for shareholders, with a better public reputation, and less criminal and civil penalties than #humanexecutives, then it's the #corporations and the board's fiduciary duty to employ them - for the cost of purchasing the #AICEO program, plus data and electricity for operation.