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The Simple Reason We Fear AI At Work — We Worry It Could Be Our Boss
Try to avoid the all-seeing eye
The cold, unblinking red infrared eye stared at me, waiting for me to speak.
Everything had come down to this moment, and I wouldn’t back down.
“I want a raise,” I blurted out, and it felt as if a weight had lifted off my shoulders.
The machine seemed to pause for a moment, and the servos whirred to life as it turned its head slightly, and a projection appeared in the air across from me.
My boss spoke in an artificially generated female voice that was slightly off in a way you couldn’t put your finger on it and droned, “Let’s analyze your productivity for the last year.”
I groaned as my work life was divided into percentages, bar charts, and milliseconds of slack time.
How the hell did it know all of this? I cleared my browser history of all the time I was sniping people on eBay during work hours.
Humans don’t really care about AI taking their jobs. They are afraid of being managed by AI.
Only milliseconds old and already a Mensa member
The minute AI comes online, it’s already more intelligent than we are. It’s smarter…
