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Swedish Company Klarna is replacing 700 human employees with OpenAI's bots and says all its metrics show the bots perform better with customers. (www.euronews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It would be esay for the US gouverment to force companies to hire persons, even for silly activities like "machine observing". You just need to make a Act of Congress which requieres something that needs a human.

This just sounds like UBI with extra steps, and not very universal, as there won't be as many "machine observing" jobs as there were jobs which the machine replaced.

Why not free up the newly unemployable portion of the population to pursue their passions and enjoy life, rather than mandating the existence of silly jobs for the sake of jobs?

[–] Endward23 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This just sounds like UBI with extra steps, and not very universal, as there won’t be as many “machine observing” jobs as there were jobs which the machine replaced.

You can make more and more bureaucracy. Someone must traine the machine observer, someone supervise them etc. There are no limits for the imagination.

Why not free up the newly unemployable portion of the population to pursue their passions and enjoy life, rather than mandating the existence of silly jobs for the sake of jobs?

I think it would be a problem with inflation and so on.