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Isn't that nice! Having a moral dilemma to decide which hospital to bomb? Just let AI decide! It's not your fault anymore just press the button!
Dictators gonna dictate.
Only five people at Microsoft gave enough fucks to protest. It should have been all of them. They should strike for fucks sakes.
In my experience the majority of tech workers don’t give a fuck about the moral implications of their work. They often justify it with “if I don’t do it someone else will.”
Source: am tech worker, see it all the time
"Once the rockets go up, who care where they come down"
I don't blame them for protesting. Yeah, admittedly AI is cool n' all, but you don't need to encourage an entire military to get in on it.
No matter where you are in an organization, unless you're csuite, you're nothing. Always remember that. You do not get a say, your opinion is tolerated at best. I've known people at MSFT for decades and they think they're opinion matters. It doesn't. Tomorrow some exec will come in and stomp on you. Work to live, don't live to work. Them saying this is good, but I like to remind people that they won't care. Money talks.
as long as people are applying to MS position jobs, the employees protesting means very little. and you see what companies did to the job review sites, sued them into being astroturfed.
Best advice ever!
Microsoft: has town hall
Also Microsoft: "approved opinions only!"
Company Town Halls are "we listen to you" theatre.
Modern large companies behave towards their employees the same way they behave towards their customers: they use marketing to influence them into doing what's best for the C-suite, the Board and (usually) shareholders.
In Tech specifically this kind of crap has been common since the 90s even in Startups (as part of the "pay them with hope, sense of belonging and pride rather than money" technique), though the big Tech companies are the most extreme in this kind of stuff.
At most large companies, this isn't too uncommon. Town Halls are not the same as town halls elected officials might stage.
I think that should be expected given the governing structure of almost all large companies, because they're dictatorships. Employees have no say over who's in leadership, and can be fired more or less without recourse. You wouldn't expect a town hall in Russia or North Korea to allow dissent, would you?
100% correct.
When you work for a corporation, you are working for a dictatorship. You have the power to choose which dictatorship you'd like to work for, but you only have whatever power they let you have.
Power that can be snatched away any time of their choosing.
If you worked on creating Ai sorry but you must have known it would eventually be used for evil
Exactly: "Let's make something that removes the human decision making from the process.. Huh, it's evil?!"
