{"id":1408,"date":"2018-11-24T01:46:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2018-11-24T01:46:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T01:46:45","slug":"without-constructive-purpose-we-can-expect-social-problems-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/without-constructive-purpose-we-can-expect-social-problems-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Constructive Purpose We Can Expect Social Problems to Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

As both a business person and someone who teaches commerce at a tertiary level I’m still struggling with the overall benefit of Artificial Intelligence for society at large. This is my perspective on AI at this point in its roll-out…<\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It will mainly benefit employers.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is being used\/ looked at closely by business owners as a way of negating or reducing employee engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is being viewed by employers as a way of avoiding the complexities of people management and having to fulfill employment related legislative requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ongoing changes to employment law in favour of employees (e.g. rising minimum wage) is contributing greatly to employers engaging AI to perform as many functions as possible that a person would otherwise perform.<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It will produce certain efficiencies; in terms of achieving greater accuracy and a reduction in defect levels and time required to carry-out a task.<\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It will result in a reduction in employment opportunities overall in society.<\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It will cause the greatest reduction in employment opportunities in relation to the\u00a0primary sector<\/strong>\u00a0– a sector which until now has looked to employ people who are (for the most part) neither highly trained\/ educated (i.e. tertiary qualified) nor technically orientated\/ qualified.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And it is this last point that creates most concern within me. Why ?<\/span><\/p>\n

If we remove or significantly reduce employment opportunities what on earth are these people going to do with their lives ? How are they going to sustain themselves and their families, and\u00a0where are they going to gain a sense of “life purpose” from<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0?<\/span><\/p>\n

Implications of people feeling disengaged and without purpose ?<\/span><\/p>\n

* Sense of being under-valued – or worse still valueless.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Sense of being denied the opportunity to contribute constructively to society.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Sense of being disconnected from society – reduced sense of belonging.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Sense of being denied the opportunity to help others – for people to “give” of themselves to others.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Increase in the incidence of mental disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Reduction in the opportunity for students to reduce tertiary debt (due to reduced employment opportunities) – and therefore a reduced incentive to undertake tertiary studies in the first place. Result ? Reduction in the overall number of tertiary qualified (highly educated) people in the world. Implications ? Reduced pool of highly skilled labour.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Increase in relationship dysfunctionality due to stress caused by economic\/ financial hardship…which could also mean an increase in violence and other crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Where do I sit in relation to the virtues of AI ? Overall, at this stage I am\u00a0not<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0a proponent\/ advocate of it at all in respect of certain sectors (the primary sector most of all); because I can see that the benefits from its use will relate to a minority only and it has the potential to exasperate unwanted undesirable behaviours in society.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As both a business person and someone who teaches commerce at a tertiary level I’m still struggling with the overall benefit of Artificial Intelligence for society at large. This is my perspective on AI at this point in its roll-out… 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It will mainly benefit employers. 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is being used\/ looked at closely by business owners as a way of negating or reducing employee engagement. 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is being viewed by employers as a way of avoiding the complexities of people management…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}