The archetypal modern senior manager: heroic, far-sighted, at the cutting edge...
A corrupt, mediocre, spiteful, psychopath
Bonald has come up with a convincing proximate explanation for the current AI-dolaltry; that seems to fit with the short/ medium term self-interest of the senior managerial class.
My paraphrase of his argument is that the managerial class are strategically (and with calculated dishonesty) hyping AI by pretending that it can efficiently replace humans without significant loss of quality.
This hype provides senior managers a pseudo-justification for making massive short-term savings on salaries by sacking a large percentage of the workforce; under cover of the lying notion that they are enhancing productivity by taking early advantage of a major technological breakthrough.
What will actually happen is that the senior managers will save a lot of money for their corporations in the short term, will get performance related salary enhancements; and will surf out of the corporations on a wave of prestige, at a job well done - to get a better paid job elsewhere.
When the company collapses due to the inevitable catastrophic failure of AI, this will no longer be a problem for the senior managers who implemented it - who by that point will long-since have departed to graze on pastures new; there to reap the rewards of their executive genius.
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