As I've heard it -- being that I'm extremely digitally-challenged and know nothing whatsoever about writing code -- the danger is that after investing so much into building an AI infrastructure, the corporate overlords will assume (read: hope) the new tech can take care of everything, and fire the expensive veterans. As you point out, leaving the new machine in the hands of the kids who haven't seen it all could be the blind leading the blind, leading to potentially massive negative consequences.
I'd like to think caution and common sense would prevail when it comes to adopting AI, but given the profit motive, I'm not at all confident it will.
Fair point and one the piece didn't address. My argument was about what the work actually requires. Yours is about whether the people writing the checks will recognize that in time. Both can be true at once.
As I've heard it -- being that I'm extremely digitally-challenged and know nothing whatsoever about writing code -- the danger is that after investing so much into building an AI infrastructure, the corporate overlords will assume (read: hope) the new tech can take care of everything, and fire the expensive veterans. As you point out, leaving the new machine in the hands of the kids who haven't seen it all could be the blind leading the blind, leading to potentially massive negative consequences.
I'd like to think caution and common sense would prevail when it comes to adopting AI, but given the profit motive, I'm not at all confident it will.
Fair point and one the piece didn't address. My argument was about what the work actually requires. Yours is about whether the people writing the checks will recognize that in time. Both can be true at once.