AI integration is a slippery slope it reduces a company’s resilience and takes away experience from the future workforce.

Sharing a little shower thought I had.

AI is the hot topic of today’s business world. Leveraging AI to increase productivity has been the latest move for executives to boost the value for the shareholders. It is often used in business pitches to make a product more apealing to potential investors.

It is a powerful tool that can curtail redundancy, increase efficiency, offload repetitive menial tasks, and many more use cases left to be discovered. I think it is a trade off for short term gain (yet to be seen) for long term sustainability of a company. Removes junior employees opportunities to gain experience, learn, and interact with senior employees.

Utilizing AI to make a company more lean is a slippery slope. As companies become more lean with fewer employees they become more reliant on AI to fill the gap. They become less resilient, when employees change or leave, and results in dependency on AI company’s latest AI models.

Without junior employees, there is no exchange of ideas and experience from senior employees. Resiliency is lost when a senior employee leaves, the company becomes susceptible to stagnation

The layoffs show employees they are more disposable than ever. There is a trend for workers to look for other jobs instead of asking for a raise as they are often denied. As of now AI still requires senior/experienced staff to proofread AI generated “work”, something that would never end if we require someone human to take liability of said work. How do you train a replacement or successor, when junior employees are disposable or replaced by AI.

AI promise an utopian age of productivity comes at a cost.

It is a black box that consumes available data, and combines/regurgitate, sometimes with hallucinations. AI models have not fully matured now or ever as there are always improvements, what if the next update/revision creates bugs in the system, a very possible outcome every programmers is familiar with.

Can you trust a black box?

What are your view on AI and its place in the workforce of the future?