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Ask HN: How would you feel about working for an AI boss?

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How would you feel about applying for a job where an AI interviews you, hires you, gives you your tasks and ongoing feedback, oversees your work by whatever metrics it wants (including directing other people to QA your work), writes your performance reviews (based on other people's feedback about your work, which it reads, and based on the metrics it has access to), and gives you bonuses and potentially fires you if you do not perform in line with its expectations?

I started to wargame what this might look like, I imagined that already at the job application process people would start to troll it, but it saw through this in my example: https://chatgpt.com/share/530e42e6-223e-4bcb-8e10-fb41ec4766a5

(I wrote that it is an actual application but in fact I just made it up.)

If it came with a real paycheck, how would you feel about applying for a job where an AI was your boss, would you do it, why or why not?

would you do it, why or why not?

Right now, now way. I would not permit a chat bot to tell me what to do, certainly not one that suggests glue on pizzas and all the other nutty low quality entropy garbage it has absorbed from the internet. There is no sign of intelligence in these bots, they just sort and summarize. At best this would be a way for human managers to take the "human" out of managing people, something hands-off managers may enjoy. They would not have to look a human in they eyes to fire them. It would be the least human experience a human could possibly have.

When would I consider your offer? When androids meet or exceed the sentience, intelligence and critical thinking of the fictional Commander Data then I would not hesitate for a microsecond to work with or for them. [1] What I am saying is that any discussion of this would remain in the realm of fantasy and science fiction for me, likely for several hundred or several thousand years.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIFjFF_BzY8 [video][science fiction][3 min]

I would quit during the interview process right after they introduced AI as a coworker concept. I can work with a little bit of crazy, but not pure stupid.

I would not work for a company that operates this way. If my current company started doing this, I would immediately start looking for a new job.

It isn't a realistic framing. Of course there already are people who are doing this, because these are the jobs they can get. The "AIs" in these cases are not "bosses" more like coordinators. There are always ultimately humans at the top of the decision tree. Or, if not, you are self employed.

Being a "boss" requires intent, which, per the AI is hard bullshit analysis, is literally not possible.

i would feel as if the boss cant even be bothered to show up for a job, and likely resign. beyond that, its not a human, so there are no social obligation, and the abuse of the machine will be a near insurmountable negative for such a corporation.

A boss I can prompt inject to manipulate? That'd be like having jedi mind tricks IRL.

As long as I could use AI to perform the job, yes.

Some bosses are so brain-dead it could be an improvement.

Sorry, didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings.

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