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Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)

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[–] sevan@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

I've been applying similar thinking to my job search. When I see AI listed in a job description, I immediately put the company into one of 3 categories:

It is an AI company that may go out of business suddenly within the next few years leaving me unemployed and possibly without any severance.
Management has drank the Kool-Aid and is hoping AI will drive their profit growth, which makes me question management competence. This also has a high likelihood of future job loss, but at least they might pay severance.
The buzzword was tossed in to make the company look good to investors, but it is not highly relevant to their business. These companies get a partial pass for me.

A company in the first two categories would need to pay a lot to entice me and I would not value their equity offering. The third category is understandable, especially if the success of AI would threaten their business.