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'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree (www.cnn.com)

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'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree::A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because medicine employs a little technique called "ethics," and there's a strong ethical argument for restricting AI to research purposes only and completely outlawing any practical deployments, at least until the implications are fully understood.

AI may very well be the nuclear WMDs of our time, and we're letting everyone play with it like a high school chemistry set.