Artificial Intelligence

You are not left behind

Reassessing a fear-mongering phrase

Uwe Friedrichsen

17 minute read

Graffiti at a house wall (seen in Porto, Portugal)

How often have you heard a phrase like “If you do not become highly proficient in AI/LLMs/Agentic AI now, you will be left behind!” in recent months? Probably more often than you were able (or willing) to count. And it does not stop there. If we do not immediately learn the stuff as advised by the person uttering such phrases, we will lose our jobs and never get a job again. Our existences will be destroyed. And this will be solely our fault because we did not listen and…

AI and the ironies of automation - Part 2

Some (well-known) consequences of AI automating work

Uwe Friedrichsen

15 minute read

View across several bushes and trees

In the previous post, we discussed several observations, Lisanne Bainbridge made in her much-noticed paper “The ironies of automation”, she published in 1983 and what they mean for the current “white-collar” work automation attempts leveraging LLMs and AI agents based on LLMs, still…