Business leaders shouldn't "BS" employees about the impact of AI on jobs, according to one tech billionaire, who says they should be transparent and honest.
Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide Technology, told CNBC that people are “too smart” to accept artificial intelligence won’t alter their work environment.
Business leaders shouldn’t “BS” employees about the impact of AI on jobs, Kavanaugh said, adding that they should be as transparent and honest as possible.
Kavanaugh, who has a net worth of $7 billion, stressed that overall he’s an optimist when it comes to AI and its ability to improve productivity.
Tech bro billionaire thinks no one knows what the impact of ai will be on the market but also that the impact will be huge for employees and that everyone should learn ai.
Conclusion:
Tech bro billionaire invested in ai and has realized that there is barely any real money to be made as of right now, to cope with his apparent bad judgement, he doubles down on the idea that ai soon be worth it. To continue his plan, he needs more funding and he doesn't want to double down hard enough to do it all himself. So to find new investors, he sings the praise of ai and promises a great future, as the present looks... Well... Bad.
I work with a lot of software where ai is part of the tool set, and in a lot of use cases it comes in pretty handy and really can save time. I think ai really will kill some jobs but mostly in undesirable industries, call center and the likes, and it will deteriorate quality in customer service even more. (That's the point where I always lol.)
Besides that: I'm quite sure that every job that gets lost due to ai will be reinstated by "demographic demand" - western nations will run out of workers sooner than they think (it's already happening), and in a few years companies will not hire but buy workers.
Simply wait for it, and then choose the job of your likings.
I trust a tech CEO to tell me the truth about the future of AI as much as I'd trust Harold Shipman to care for my elderly relatives.
Ask most people in the industry, the ones with PhD's in ML/DS, and the engineers that build the infrastructure around this stuff, and you'll likely hear that while it's very cool, what we'll likely see from it is a huge improvement in productivity tooling and word processing. It'll make workers' lives easier.
IMO, it won't take away any jobs any time soon. Most of the CEO's that say it's saved millions of hours of their engineers are, bluntly, liars. Those that say that software engineering will disappear because LLM's will get better are either really fucking stupid, liars that are pandering to shareholders, or a mix of the two.
Where I'll say that this person is right is that it'll improve productivity, naturally because the tools help the workers.