Proving that he has his finger on the pulse when it comes to his employees, 55-year-old CEO Peter Harkins just sent a company-wide email in which he blamed remote work for “hurting company culture.” This comes after the third consecutive round of layoffs he just authorized.
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Bad idea. In order to get a computer to do anything useful, you must first be honest about what outcome you want. This means saying the quiet part out loud, resulting an an AI prompt something like:
Develop a business plan optimizing for shareholder value, maximizing bonus payout for top leadership, leveraging all company assets, while avoiding lawsuits that will end the company. Legal problems are okay provided they do not interfere with increasing company value. Assume full workforce productivity and minimal depreciation on assets.What follows is a cutthroat business plan that will make a killing on Wall St. in the short run, and make everyone in said business absolutely miserable. All remaining ethics that are left at the C-level get thrown right in the trash. Also: this kills the environment.
True, but I’m hoping they just feed in their company mission and the AI goes insane trying to make sense of it
I think I saw that on Star Trek once. They made a planet go mad.
Or, we could just implement the algorithms that are already available, and not tell it to maximize shareholder value, but instead company productivity, and you’ll get the most efficient companies possible.