AI and the paradox of self-replacing workers

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As companies introduce AI into the workplace to increase productivity, an uncomfortable paradox is emerging: people are often responsible for training the very systems that might displace them. AI ethics advocate Madison Mohns presents three leadership principles to embrace technological progress while prioritizing your coworkers' well-being — paving the way for a future where AI enhances human potential.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.0	You are hearing my actual recorded voice right now,
0:15.5	but AI is developing so rapidly
0:17.9	that plenty of podcasts are already trying automated hosting.
0:22.3	These AI tools are all trained by the data and
0:24.8	functionality of well us humans and as AI gains work proficiency humans may find
0:31.6	themselves replaced.
0:33.0	Product manager Madison Mones knows this conundrum all too well.
0:37.0	In her 2023 talk from TEDX Rigglyville,
0:40.0	she offers a few ways to embrace AI in the workplace
0:43.3	without replacing our coworkers.
0:46.2	After the break.
0:49.7	I'm going about my day, normal Tuesday of meetings,
0:52.3	when I get a ping from my managers
0:54.0	manager's manager. It says get me a document by the end of the day that
1:00.3	records everything your team has been working on related to AI.
1:04.2	As it turns out, the board of directors of my large company had been hearing buzz about
1:08.0	this new thing called ChatGPT and they wanted to know what we were doing about it.
1:13.1	They're freaking out about the future.
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