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I think it's a harmful act of technological hubris to suggest that it's possible. Employment is a human relationship. I don't see much evidence that humans are
by afandian 5y ago
I think it's a harmful act of technological hubris to suggest that it's possible. Employment is a human relationship. I don't see much evidence that humans are able to construct a system that can respond to all of the human interaction that goes into a human relationship. Look at the state of the art of HR software, let alone spyware.
Let the robot managers for manage robots.
- willcipriano 5y agoIf someone invented such a system, I wouldn't want to stop them from using it, I just hold them accountable. I personally wouldn't trust a computer to fire someone if I was on the hook for it's choices.
- afandian 5y agoI don't trust any of the feedback loops, or the good faith of any of the kinds of organizations that would use them. Show me a time when a company was truly accountable for a "computer mistake" and didn't just shrug it off when the damage was done. The fable of the scorpion and the frog springs to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
- willcipriano 5y agoI don't think it's actually a defence now, except maybe in the court of public opinion. For example, I'm certain courts would find that it's still sexual harassment if you build a machine to go around looking up women's dresses instead of doing it yourself. The problem isn't a lack of accountability for the machine so much as it is a lack of accountability generally.