Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report on BetaNews:Although artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other emerging technologies may reshape the world as we know it, a new global study has revealed that the many CEOs now value technology over people when it comes to the future of their businesses. The study was conducted by the Los Angeles-based management consultant firm Korn Ferry that interviewed 800 business leaders across a variety of multi-million and multi-billion dollar global organizations. The firm says that 44 percent of the CEOs surveyed agreed that robotics, automation and AI would reshape the future of many work places by making people "largely irrelevant." The global managing director of solutions at Korn Ferry Jean-Marc Laouchez explains why many CEOs have adopted this controversial mindset, saying: "Leaders may be facing what experts call a tangibility bias. Facing uncertainty, they are putting priority in their thinking, planning and execution on the tangible -- what they can see, touch and measure, such as technology instruments."

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[Curunir_wolf]

I guess we don't need the FLSA anymore, then. Might as well get rid of it, since the unions are taking care of all that for everybody! And all they want is the same access to your paycheck that the IRS gets. AirBus, Yokohoma, and GTSC should have built their plants in Michigan instead of Mississippi - they must have been crazy to build there, because unions are so great.