Workers are being punished for ignoring AI advice – even when they know better

It's understandable that management would like to minimize the impact of lower-status employees. One perspective on this is that the end goal of this type of business is to ultimately not need employees and forward all the money to the top. The end goal for many decision makers has always been passive income; what's more passive than bots? And sure they'll make mistakes, but there's an implied promise that they'll be addressed soon and "look how close we are already! We just need a few dozen more billion dollars".

The more conservative perspective is that process compliance is the most important bit of certain organized labor. If there is something wrong with the system, management needs to be able to see that. Say the handbook says to use an x bit in the y socket, but all your coworkers know to, obviously, use the y bit on the y socket. That's fine until a new plant opens with 5 million too many x bits and 5 million too few y bits, and an initial production run of broken product. Generally, under rational management, you will not be punished for doing things the way you are supposed to.

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