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IBM to Stop Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do
Routine tasks like transferring employees between departments are likely to be fully automated:
American tech major IBM anticipates pausing hiring for positions that it believes artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually take over.
In an interview with Bloomberg, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company will suspend or pause hiring for back-office functions such as human resources.
The company employs some 26,000 people in these non-customer-facing roles, Krishna said.
"I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period," he added.
[...] Routine tasks like transferring employees between departments or providing letters of employment verification are likely to be fully automated, said the company's chief.
Over the next ten years, he continued, it is likely that some HR functions related to workforce composition analysis and productivity will not be replaced.
IBM Pauses Hiring to Onboard AI Instead
I have no mouth and I must scream—the AI workforce appears to be full steam ahead. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said that the company is planning to pause or slow hiring in the coming years for roles in which AI could replace humans.
[...] "There is no blanket hiring 'pause' in place," Tim Davidson, IBM communications officer, told Gizmodo in an email. "IBM is being deliberate and thoughtful in our hiring with a focus on revenue-generating roles, and we're being very selective when filling jobs that don't directly touch our clients or technology. We are actively hiring for thousands of positions right now."
[...] What companies like IBM are willfully ignoring is that AI could serve a supplement to labor by making menial tasks easier or even non-existent, thereby optimizing the performance of both that artificial intelligence and the human worker. New research from Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that 14% of employees that used ChatGPT in their workflow saw an increase in productivity—with the least experienced and least skilled workers completing tasks 35% faster.
(Score: 5, Touché) by corey on Thursday May 04, @11:19AM (4 children)
Ah it really warms my heart that the first major department to be replaced by artificial intelligence is HR. The people working at my corps HR dept might as well be artificial too.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04, @11:41AM
I figured the easiest jobs for AI to take over would be the C-suite jobs. If companies even as big as Alphabet take orders from venture capitalists on what decisions to make, why do you even need C-suite jobs at all? Think of the massive cost reduction that would bring!
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday May 04, @12:16PM (1 child)
Until or if you are in the unfortunate position to apply for a job with said companies. I'm sure there will be a market soon for AI-tailored CV:s etc. Sort of like SEO for job applications. Right keywords and phrases become more important then the person or the actual content.
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Thursday May 04, @07:10PM
Just ask chatGPT to write you CV that would pass its inspection ;)
(Score: 2) by OrugTor on Thursday May 04, @05:04PM
"When they came for HR I said nothing because I hate HR"
You know the rest.
The differentiating factor of the coming ME3 (Mass Employment Extinction Event) is that they will be coming for damn near all of us.