Those asshole companies can go fuck themselves.

And anyone who actually has tried to use AI to do anything serious, knows it doesn’t work as a worker replacement. It can (possibly) make some of your engineers more effective but it can’t replace them. That’s just a fever dream.

Maybe a chatbot on your webpage can save some first line support costs, but it will more likely expose you to data leaks and anger your customers because no one wants to interact with it.

The usecases are narrow and none of them include ”getting rid of people” or ”lowering salaries”. It’s the other way around. AI implementation is a risk with lot of investment and (at the moment) dubious ROI.

That headline right there is why Assumed Intelligence is being pushed so hard down our throats.

It will work … right until the techbros start charging actual cost for their “service”, at which point we’ll discover that we can in fact crash the global economy.

Yeah, and techbros and their lobbyists also totally expect that they can get rid of all qualified workers with AI to only have barely-paid and dependent serfs again. Will totally happen if they just believe hard enough in that tale…

… depending on the qualifications of their employees, a third to half of companies expect salaries to remain stable. “From the point of view of many companies, artificial intelligence will not affect salaries equally for all employees,” says ifo researcher Anna Ruffert.

“They are most likely to expect salaries to fall for less experienced workers.” Service providers most frequently expect salaries to fall for their workers.

For employees with a (technical) university degree, there is hardly any change in the expectations regarding a pay cut. However, they have the chance more often to see an increase in their salary, especially in conjunction with more work experience.

It’s a bit more nuanced, but the headline fits good into OP (and feddit.org’s) propaganda drive.