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Ironically administration overhead in many industries, particularly healthcare and education, has been growing over the past several decades despite increasing
by wefarrell 4y ago
Ironically administration overhead in many industries, particularly healthcare and education, has been growing over the past several decades despite increasing technology adoption.
This is exactly the opposite of what you would expect given the increased efficiencies that come from adopting computer systems and automation.
I see AI as a continuation of this trend and I don’t expect it to put people out of work, bureaucracy will always find new ways to justify itself.
- analyte123 4y agoI’ve heard this stated as “jobs that don’t exist for economic reasons aren’t going to get automated for economic reasons”.
- wefarrell 4y agoI think we overestimate the extent to which organizations are aligned and making cohesive decisions based on economics.
- thequadehunter 4y agoThe other thing is that we'd need insane levels of trust in the AI to have it doing all these jobs 100%. Like, I could technically have a newbie running commands on a production router for a script that I wrote out...but even if I let them do that there's no way I wouldn't at least supervise. I don't think most companies are even remotely comfortable with the idea of having an AI system running code on their systems no matter how smart it is.