@jwgoerlich computers today can be held, however. So the statement is only 50% correct.

@jwgoerlich someone should let them know 😂 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3694874/job-cuts-may-intensify-as-ibm-plans-to-use-ai-to-replace-30-of-back-office-jobs.html

@jwgoerlich FWIW, politicians are never accountable either…

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Quantum AI computers must not only be allowed to make management decisions. The military versions must also be given the responsibility for making kill decisions as well.
Computerz rule. Humans drool.

@jwgoerlich now do “a corporation”

@jwgoerlich Chat-GPT makes a management decision in 3... 2... 1...

@jwgoerlich I like this!

@jwgoerlich recent practice suggests that this should apply to CEOs as well.

@jwgoerlich True #wisdom

@jwgoerlich Agree with the sentiment but is this the same IBM that maintained Hitler’s Hollerith machines during the Holocaust?

@jwgoerlich True statement... though it puts the 1940s in an awkward position.

@jwgoerlich the trick was: we got used to hold managers less and less accountable since then to a point where it doesn’t make any difference.

@jwgoerlich Well, the same lack of accountability applies to board members of corporations, plus, they have a near perfect track record of privatising profits while socialising costs plus, unlike computers, they are motivated to act in self interest. Given a choice, I’d prefer to have important decisions made by a nonhuman entity. I’d chose a cat over a computer but a computer over a human any day.

@jwgoerlich Within 15 years, a billioniare is gonna file a lawsuit transferring all of his assets to an AI program. He will claim that the AI has all of his rights, including the right to own property, run for public office, hire and fire employees. We must stop that now before the lawsuit is filed.

@jwgoerlich Absolutely correct!!

@jwgoerlich following this logic: billionaires must not be allowed to make management decisions

@jwgoerlich Please consider adding an alt-text: "a computer can never be held accountable", a few blank lines, "therefore a computer must never make a management decision", all in caps, on a page of paper.

@jwgoerlich "If your AI is so good, then you should give up seats on your board of directors to it you cowards."

@jwgoerlich didn't know that managers were held accountable in the first place

@jwgoerlich @map it’s a bit outdated. Nowadays not even people are held accountable for their decisions.

A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must never make a management decision
Centered on page with plenty of margin, capitalised

@jwgoerlich Also true of Supreme Court justices.

@jwgoerlich In 2023 USA, this is PRECISELY the reason corporations want computers to make management decisions

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this only reminds us how short-sighted IBM were.
before too long, AIs will be able to imagine and reason as well as the best human minds.
they won't be computers. they will be sentient machines.
i'd like to think that if Asimov's laws held, then AIs may one day be trusted to make far better management decisions than any human does

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They are making lots of decisions. Most of them just aggravating but some are hurtful and dangerous.

@jwgoerlich After all, why hold a computer accountable for management decisions when you can just blame your employees (or at the very least, make they suffer the brunt of the fallout)? /s

@jwgoerlich @morgant since when was management held accountable?

@jwgoerlich Don't worry, management won't be held accountable either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust