☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days agoChina has outlawed companies from AI-based layoffs. Should Canada follow?globalnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up156
arrow-up156external-linkChina has outlawed companies from AI-based layoffs. Should Canada follow?globalnews.ca☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareDriftingLynx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoThat’s a blithely rose colored view of the situation. The adoption of AI is for the very purpose of automation to eliminate the most persistent thorn in the Capitalist’s side: human labour. “They” will never use AI to make your, or my, life easier.
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI’m made a normative statement, not a descriptive one.
minus-squareDriftingLynx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoAh yes, the “normative statement”: when economists want a word to cover their blithely ignorant statements.
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agoI’m not an economist. “Normative” just means “this how I think things should be”.
That’s a blithely rose colored view of the situation.
The adoption of AI is for the very purpose of automation to eliminate the most persistent thorn in the Capitalist’s side: human labour.
“They” will never use AI to make your, or my, life easier.
I’m made a normative statement, not a descriptive one.
Ah yes, the “normative statement”: when economists want a word to cover their blithely ignorant statements.
I’m not an economist.
“Normative” just means “this how I think things should be”.