• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    That’s like blaming a gun for murder.

    And yet, without guns there would be an order of magnitude less murders. This is literally the same argument the people who make billions manufacturing and selling guns use constantly to try to stop gun control laws that are proposed in order to stop people from killing other people with guns.

    The argument that AI is simply a tool is a valid one but it’s ill applied here. If AI wasn’t here and hadn’t been so stupidly hyped by the people trying like hell to make billion$ from it, the situation Ford and their engineers ended up in wouldn’t have happened. The people who made the decision to fire people in favor of AI carry blame but so do the people who hyped up AI as a really good replacement for human workers.

    Truthfully I hope the people Ford hired back squeeze every dime they can out of them and are able to find jobs at places that appreciate them and their talents better. Fuck Ford and Fuck AI.