At a recent panel discussion of business leaders, there was a momentary stunned silence when the CEO of a software company said that he hoped the cost of employing humans would become increasingly prohibitive, thanks to tax and regulatory changes, so that more bosses would turn to tech.
We’d just been discussing AI and the likelihood of jobs disappearing, and the societal and cultural problems this would cause. We’d all agreed that the implications were immense and deeply troubling. Well, I thought we had. Until the software guy said he was relishing the prospect of people being shoved on the scrapheap. He made his money from selling machine systems, and the more they sold, the better his company did. Simple. As he said, it would be hypocritical of him to pretend otherwise.
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