Anonymous
10/01/2025 19:56
Subject: AI looming and a work proposal (for government workers)
Any thoughts on the newest EO to use AI in child cancer research? Why’s an EO needed? Are/were human researchers against the idea?
Anonymous
10/01/2025 19:52
Subject: AI looming and a work proposal (for government workers)
Anonymous wrote:Obvious troll is obvious.
The problem with AI isn't that it replaces menial work. That would be fine.
The problem is that the tech bros skipped right over that - alleviating no actual boring grind work thus far - and tried to make it replace knowledge work and creative work. Not only are those the good, enjoyable, intrinsically valuable and human tasks, but AI sucks at those tasks. So we're pretty tired of getting laid off or lowballed because AI is supposedly going to do them. Literally no one wants that product.
There are a million problems AI could actually solve, if anyone were interested.
This. It's not actually making anyone's life easier other than lining the pockets of the 1% and laying off people from middle-lower income jobs. I'd be more impressed if it replaced the CEO who earns eight figures and spends most of their time flying to conferences and meetings to make decisions that well, a machine could make from afar without having to spend tens of thousands of dollars on air travel. And the machine won't ever require a fat yearly bonus nor golden parachute when the board is done with it.
Anonymous
10/01/2025 19:35
Subject: AI looming and a work proposal (for government workers)
Anonymous wrote:AI sucks for lawyer work. It's actually worse than useless because it gives a partially correct answer but unless you already know the answer you will miss the fact that the AI answer either misses an exception or an important factual distinction.
+1
Plus so much of legal/policy analysis doesn’t even have a clear answer and as of now AI is not great at inferences or analogizing when there isn’t a bright line rule. Or it will spit out some definitive “rule” without the necessary context or it will be totally made up (or even the inverse of what the law says). Maybe it will be able to do this type of work someday, but right now it isn’t great. I do love it for tedious doc review and summarizing though.