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Why would people want to give the power and prestige of an executive position to a computer program?
by djur 3y ago
Why would people want to give the power and prestige of an executive position to a computer program?
- trashtester 3y agoIf the superintelligence can increase the value more than a human, I suppose the owner don't care if the position is held by a human or an AI. Especially if the competitor is already run that way, and doing really well.
- ben_w 3y agoBecause the humans overestimate the upside, underestimate the downside, and are often too lazy to check the output. There's power and prestige in money, too, not just the positions. Hence the lawyers who got in trouble for outsourcing themselves to ChatGPT: https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-us... Or those t-shirts from a decade back: https://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/smallbusiness/tshirt-business/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/smallbusiness/tshirt-busine...