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Klarna freezes hiring as chief bets AI can do the job instead
- callalex 3y agoYou know a company is pathetic and failing when it has to resort to silly publicity stunts to be talked about instead of just having a product people care about and use.
- autotune 3y agoThinking about products is hard. Just count to 10 and follow the sound of my voice.
- infamouscow 3y agoI suspect the fools making these decisions will the first to be replaced with AI.
- dsabanin 3y agoNot if THEY are doing the “replacing.”
- alpineidyll3 3y agoThis company is such trash. I had to call all my financial institutions and prevent any klarna charges because of how they enable fraud.
- throwaway5959 3y agoGood luck with that.
- ahurmazda 3y agohttps://archive.ph/WS9vZ https://archive.ph/WS9vZ
- pyrophane 3y agoThis is a weird article. For one, I think this is super easy to say this if maybe you aren't hiring anyway for other reasons, and there is nothing other than the non-engineering hiring freeze that indicates that they are placing meaningful bets on this outcome. Where is the mention of the well-staffed R&D effort to bring this into reality? And "AI" has just become a super annoying catch-all that allows people to perform a sort of sleight-of-hand that they wouldn't otherwise be able to get away with. "Look here not here" and the audience is mesmerized by the possible economic windfall that our future robotic overlords might grant them.
- grotted 3y agoTotally. We've had Q4 labor screw-overs since Jack Welch. Now this added humiliation. "AI" might enable mass automation. But it will also enable this CEO tactic: "Look shareholders/VCs, I namedropped the hot new thing, please gimme extra layoff brownie points this Christmas!"