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Wendy NatherWaiting for the first person to sue their employer for cognitive damage due to forced AI use. 🤔
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Greg Wilson@wendynather I'm really liking people framing this (and social media) as "cognitive pollution". Don't know who said it first, but we don't pass laws to stop kids from eating paint with lead in it - we ban lead in paint.
Oyu F'ka@gvwilson @wendynather Good point!
Jennifer Moore 😷
doboprobodyne@gvwilson @wendynather
It's a *very* good phrase. If I was the Ministry of Truth, I would be very impressed indeed.
#linguistics #neuroLinguisticProgramming #indoctrination #doctrine
@wendynather Only a matter of time - thank fuck I'm retired otherwise I would also have been confronted with using this so-called AI.
Andreea@wendynather I’m no lawyer and I’m not sure how this will age but that first person will probably take a hit and get fired because something something it’s in their job description but may win eventual lawsuits on a disability claim or something adjacent.
Dave Wilburn 
I'm expecting there will be a LOT of lawsuits over reasonable accommodations for belief-based reasons. Given the pope just issued an encyclical denouncing GenAI's common harms, workers are arguably on relatively strong footing if they demand accommodations.
oak_kitten@diemkay @wendynather
If I had to guess I'd say one of the first "my employers AI caused me harm" lawsuits would be for delusions and/or psychosis caused by AI.
The otherwise slow decline of reasoning and skills is more tricky to prove.
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@wendynather if that were going to happen, shouldn't something similar have happened over the years for Burnout or RSI/carpal tunnel?
(It has. The result is called Workers Comp. I, too, am going to keep an eye out for an LLM-triggered iteration of this.)