BREAKING: 🇨🇳 China's court just ruled companies can't fire workers only to replace them with AI.
Beijing is warning firms that putting profit over jobs could carry penalties, especially when it comes to young people.
Read that again. The country racing hardest to win the AI race just told its own companies to slow down.
You can't automate a human out of a job purely to cut costs.
China has high youth unemployment and a slowing economy. A wave of AI layoffs would devastating.
So Beijing is doing what it always does.
Stability first. Efficiency second.
The "AI replaces everyone" trade assumes nothing stands in the way. Beijing just stood in the way. By decree.
Is this country so bereft of political talent that we keep having to retrieve disgraced ones? Or maybe disgraced politicians is on brand for NZ First.
He will be back in parliament next election huh
I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.
Just googled this ministry to see what it’s achieved. I assumed that as he lusts attention, he would have crowed to the media about every little win.
Curiously I found sweet fuck all. Seriously, just google it. I was genuinely surprised at how little it’s done.
@SunnyGrove_Dave As per my original post, it’s their inability to understand how AI is going to work that bugs me. It’s a bandwagon that they’ve no idea about.
Saying they will make public service cuts through utilisation of AI is irrelevant without detailing how. So far, no minister has been able to say how this will work when asked.
They have just made thousands of people worried for their jobs without reason. Other than cruelty.
@SunnyGrove_Dave I’ve been through many private sector restructures. I’ve never experienced one where they’ve just said AI will take out 9000 jobs without having any plan or even any clue as to how is astoundingly unprofessional
@grant_farquhar I’m not arguing things can’t be done more efficiently. But saying AI is going to replace everything without any idea whatsoever on how smacks of bullshit politicking
Finally watched Prime Minister on Netflix.
Can’t help thinking how fucking good Jacinda was as PM.
Fuck the haters, I won’t engage in your replies, it’s just my opinion, I don’t care what you think.
Oh, but fuck Barry Soper, what a cock juice.