IBM CEO Arvind Krishna's mixed messaging on AI layoffs will do little to calm lingering concerns

IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments::IBM CEO Arvind Krishna appears to be in a state of damage control following recent controversial comments on AI-related job losses.

  • MNByChoiceEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    As far as I can tell, the troublesome comments were:

    “That means you can get the same work done with fewer people,” he said at the time. “That’s just the nature of productivity. I actually believe that the first set of roles that will get impacted are - what I call - back office, white-collar work.”

      • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        1 year ago

        Every piece of data available shows no correlation between executive pay and performance. Fire your CEO and save the cash on AI.

      • bitsplease@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago
        • ability to make decisions based on arbitrary gut feelings, then blame everyone under you when things go wrong
        • ability to take 1 sentence of meaningful info and turn it into a full press release filled with nonsense and buzz words
        • general inability to actually produce anything with consistent quality without requiring high levels of supervision
        • costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year

        As far as I can tell, the only one of those that chatGPT doesn’t already do is the last point, and I guess you could just light the money on fire (or if you wanna get really crazy, use it to increase worker pay)