China: Firing employees and replacing them with AI is illegal
1d 3h ago by lemmy.world/u/Tartufo in fuck_ai from www.msn.com
Tl;dr summary: Company lowered the wage of an employee after reassigning him to do lesser work as AI took over parts of his job, employee refuses to accept this, company fires him, court rules this was against the law from the moment the wage was lowered
Yes, it's China. Yes, China has a lot of issues. Yes, companies will try their best to find other ways to get rid of employees. But this still is finally a W in regards to AI BS.
Honestly I am generally pretty hard on China but if this is true it is based as fuck
Now consider that at LEAST 50% of the problems you know about China are exaggerated or outright made up, in order to fit the US State Department’s narrative.
China has been kicking our ass for years and they don’t want you to know it because it makes all our greedy capital owners look bad and we might reject their ownership for better owners, or a better system.
Police only exist to protect capital. The purpose of a system is what it does.
Yeah, the Internet really exaggerated the social credit system.
I remember one Reddit post way back in the day where they said in China they buried people alive in a train accident to "hide" the deaths from the media. It's like, dude wtf are you talking about? People were eating it up though.
People can exaggerate the evils of China sometimes but they most definitely are still capitalist
It's because they adhere to the idea that everyone who can be gainfully employed should be gainfully employed.
People say China isn't a real communist country but this is a byproduct of communist policy.
They generally have an aversion to eliminating jobs, at least for their own citizens
Ikr? Being able to tell your manager "geez, you're worse than China" just hits different.
Allow me to channel my inner BBC:
China makes mass unemployment for AI illegal … but at what cost?
But if we don't remove all guardrails to develop AI as fast as possible China is gonna do it and take over the world!
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(Ignore this. I somehow double-posted and Lemmy won't let me delete the redundant one.)
Tell me you know nothing of what's going on in China without using those words.
“Please wait for the next five year plan where we make rapid AI integration a priority.”
What the State of China is thinking
Nailed it, Sparky!
Rapid AI integration as a priority is currently on-going. The key word there it "integration", not "replacement". Hence the court decision above.
Make no mistake, the Chinese are putting AI (in various forms, not just degenerative AI) into all kinds of places. The difference between them and the west is that they're working primarily (albeit, being humans, imperfectly) on engineering principals, with projects having failure conditions, limited space/time-controlled trials, and projects failing to reach their markers getting cancelled.
In contrast to the western model of "throw AI at everything and hope something, somewhere, sticks so we can get another round of VC funding".