AI Can't Do Your Job

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AI can't do your job
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AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman (Elon Musk) can convince your boss (the USA) to fire you and replace you (a federal worker) with a chatbot that can’t do your job:

The role of this “human in the loop” isn’t to prevent errors. That human is there to be blamed for errors:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-neck-in-a-noose/#is-also-a-human-i…

The human is there to be a “moral crumple zone”:

https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/260

The human is there to be an “accountability sink”:

https://profilebooks.com/work/the-unaccountability-machine/

By firing skilled human workers and replacing them with spicy autocomplete, Musk is assuming his final form as both the kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you with a defective chatbot and as the fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss. Musk is transforming key government functions into high-speed error-generating machines whose human minders are only the payroll to take the fall for the coming tsunami of robot fuckups.

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