The Dangers of Algorithms in the Workplace

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I'm thinking places where if they restricted the amount of misinformation that's coming through it, then I would think paralegals. Any lawyer may be, you know, a law firm with 100 people and it might be able to do the same job with 20 or other kinds of white collar work. How dangerous is that? And I mean, in your work, where you guys consult to some of the biggest companies in the world, what do you see them doing with this stuff that could cause a loss of jobs? Yeah, so I think that the general thinking today is that these algorithms are there to augment, to help the person rather than replace the person.

Until very recently, a lot of talk about artificial intelligence conjured dystopian images of Skynet, the Matrix, and HAL-9000 instead of a browser window answering homework questions or rendering bizarre reproductions of famous artwork.

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