{"id":12203,"date":"2023-11-09T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/like-horses-laid-off-by-the-car-bt-tech-chiefs-ai-job-losses-analogy-draws-anger\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:37:40","slug":"like-horses-laid-off-by-the-car-bt-tech-chiefs-ai-job-losses-analogy-draws-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/like-horses-laid-off-by-the-car-bt-tech-chiefs-ai-job-losses-analogy-draws-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Like horses laid off by the car: BT tech chief\u2019s AI job losses analogy draws anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with \u2018beasts of burden\u2019 and denigrating right to strike<\/p>\n

BT\u2019s technology chief, Harmeen Mehta, has suggested workers whose jobs are threatened by AI accept their fate as \u201cevolution\u201d, comparing them to horses replaced by the car.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the business website Raconteur<\/a>, Mehta said: \u201cI don\u2018t know how horses felt when the car was invented, but they didn\u2019t complain that they were put out of a job; they didn\u2019t go on strike.<\/p>\n

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\nHarmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with \u2018beasts of burden\u2019 and denigrating right to strike
\nBT\u2019s technology chief, Harmeen Mehta, has suggested workers whose jobs are threatened by AI accept their fate as \u201cevolution\u201d, comparing them to horses replaced by the car.
\nIn an interview with the business website Raconteur, Mehta said: \u201cI don\u2018t know how horses felt when the car was invented, but they didn\u2019t complain that they were put out of a job; they didn\u2019t go on strike. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with \u2018beasts of burden\u2019 and denigrating right to strike BT\u2019s technology chief, Harmeen Mehta, has suggested workers whose jobs are threatened by AI accept their fate as \u201cevolution\u201d, comparing them to horses replaced by the car. In an interview with the business website Raconteur, Mehta said: \u201cI don\u2018t …<\/p>\n

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