IBM's Watson going to replace 34 workers at insurance firm

[JTsyo]

Guardian

£1.4m for the AI plus £100k in maintenance replaces 34 employees and saves them £1m per year. Office workers better get ready for the coming change in the workplace.

 

[momeNt]

If nobody has to do anything, then what does everybody do?

 

[Qwertilot]

Interesting things!

If you mean how will everyone find some way to live, well that's a matter of our economic system being non trivially challenged by these coming changes. Hopefully we'll rearrange things to make it work but it might get quite ugly in the meantime.

 

[brycejones]

If nobody has to do anything, then what does everybody do?

Sit around and debate the morality and dignity of human labor?

 

[IronWing]

If nobody has to do anything, then what does everybody do?

Riot, smash the looms.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I'm sure that the Luddites were pissed off about all those buggy whip job losses too!