Post by @halfapage@lemmy.world

2026-10-11 05:36 UTC

I’ve been bringing this up to my bosses, they do not care at all. In my opinion, employers are so high on a prospect of letting employees go in a “near” future, that they are completely okay with liabilities way bigger than hiring workers is right now. No idea why they would ignore such direct existential danger for their companies. Short term thinking probably.

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@Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-11 05:59

I really wonder if they don’t understand that they change from a distributed dependence for labour to a single dependency for labour and what that means for their position in their eco system. Dear boss, 50 people won’t strike or leave the company all at once for no reason at Monday 9:38am. Your ai overlords might decide change the terms of the contract randomly on a Monday morning and there is nothing you can do. You had effectively a crown and gave it away.

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@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2026-10-11 05:49

My company is not like that. They care about the employees. It’s actually written in black and white in the company’s charter: the purpose of the company is to do good by its employees and the community it operates in. I’ve brought up my concerns about AI before and they’ve reacted: they invested in machines capable of running models locally for the engineers (I have one on my desk) and they formed a committee on AI safety and building local infrastructure to untie ourselves from the big cloud AI providers. My company is one of a rare few such companies. Most other employers are like yours. Yet as good as mine is, AI is like cocaine to those who use it and to the bean counters: they know it’s bad but they just can’t stop.

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