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    La società di servizi finanziari Block licenzierà quasi la metà del suo personale e lo sostituirà con l’intelligenza artificiale

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    1. Educational_Deer_137 on

      lol. nothing to do with them overhiring during the pandemic or the fact their shares have been in freefall since 2022. AI my hoop.

    2. Adventurous-Tax512 on

      No accountability with AI they’re shooting themselves in the foot

    3. pixelburp on

      >“We’re not making this decision because we’re in trouble. Our business is strong,” Dorsey said in a post on X.
      “Gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving,” he said.
      “But something has changed. We’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that’s accelerating rapidly.”

      Well there it is. As naked an admission about what AI can and will do to our society, if unchecked: the company essentially *admits* it’s not in trouble, and doesn’t really have any cause to sack half its workforce – they just don’t wanna pay human beings when clankers can do it for them. Maybe there’s more beyond the statement, the company in lesser rude-health than it’s claming, but it’s a really dreadful read all the same.

      This is what enrages me so much about the “other jobs will appear” handwave, or the comparisons with the Industrial Revolution: prior technological leaps broadly made life *easier* for workers while often increasing our net social mobility. AI essentially negates **any** need for the employer-employee social contract altogether, essentially destroying it but replacing it with … ? What?

      It’s gonna get so ugly I worry for the world my kids are growing into, ‘cos something’s gotta give. At this stage I’m a mix of depressed, angry and just exhausted by the speed with which Tech Bros are crippling societies’ ability to sustain themselves.

    4. Neither-Payment-4147 on

      We will see more and more of this, any company providing services, especially financial or software services is now at risk.

    5. HighDeltaVee on

      The general concensus is that these “AI” announcements and firings are being made for two reasons :

      1. If you don’t, and your peers do, then your share price falls
      2. Outsourcing to India

    8. Sufficient_Shift_370 on

      Only the beginning of these types of news stories

    10. susanboylesvajazzle on

      Let’s see what happens to them in 6 months time.

    12. significantrisk on

      Just remember everyone, the same fuckin arseholes whingeing that you need to go back to the office and interact with other people are the same ones replacong the people in the office with magic 8 ball robots.

      This is all Very Good apparently.

    13. Such_Baker8707 on

      Tech companies massively overhired during COVID and now are using AI as an excuse to cut back on those staff. LLMs are snakeoil, don’t believe the hype.

    14. calibosco on

      What’s with the big push to India now all of a sudden? India has been a thing for at least 15 years as a potential location to outsource jobs…but they’re doing it now, right when ai is around the corner. I don’t get it. It’s like everyone going out and buying vhs players the day before dvd players get released.

    15. BlehMan1972 on

      I hope it blows up in their face because they’ve overestimated the AI capabilities.

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