Do AI/automation threaten you?
With automation becoming more and more prevalent these days, some people fear about automation and AI replacing us. I guess in this sense developers are safe but does it threaten you? Why or why not?
I have spent much time in the last few decades automating such tasks out of existence. Many times at the behest of those who were doing these tasks so that they could get back to doing their real jobs.
From my perspective, the problem that arises is where "management" are sold an idea that automation can do more than it really can.
As far as AI is concerned, this has been very much hyped up and exaggerated over the decades. What we have today is far less than the "promise" of the technology from way back in the sixties and seventies. Certain kinds of tasks currently being done by human intelligence could be replaced by the highly primitive AI technologies available to us. But one would hope that these systems would be reviewed continuously by human intelligence. Otherwise, we can expect disaster to occur on a regular basis as these system fail due to all sorts of "buggy" software and hardware and unforeseen error conditions.