What is ‘silent shooting’? All about the ‘quiet takedown’ claptrap blamed on AI

While workers worry that they may lose their jobs to artificial intelligence in the future, some experts claim that it is already happening.

Instead of letting their employees “quit,” employers “quietly retire,” or make roles so difficult that employees leave and are then replaced by artificial intelligence.

George Kailas, CEO of Prospero.Ai and a contributor to Fast Company, claims that this is why Amazon is forcing employees to come into the office five days a week, despite the majority of the workforce expressing dissatisfaction with the back-to-office policy.

As a result, 73% of workers considered quitting, a survey found.

Kailas claims that, despite some data proving that remote work increases productivity, companies like Amazon are “quietly laying off workers” by implementing such policies, “because the best way to reduce retention while saving on disengagement it would be the abolition of remote work,” he wrote. .

“What makes this even more alarming is that we haven’t even scratched the surface of the AI ​​adoption curve,” Kailas added.

While Elon Musk expects a complete overhaul of the workforce as a result of AI, experts are not so convinced.

Economist and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu insists that only 5% of jobs can be replaced or assisted by AI within the next 10 years.

“A lot of money will be wasted,” he previously told Bloomberg. “You’re not going to get an economic revolution from that 5%.”

He argued that AI is not yet reliable to complete the tasks that humans do and predicted that the technology will not advance enough anytime soon.

“You need very reliable information or the ability of these models to faithfully implement some steps that workers were previously doing,” Acemoglu continued.

“They can do that in some places with a human oversight … but in most places they can’t.”

Concerns about an AI job revolution come as Gen Z drives another workplace trend called “The Great Disconnect.” A cousin of “quiet leave” and “quiet vacation,” workplace disengagement refers to a decline in employee engagement due to disgruntled workers.

Polling data from Gallup revealed a 5% decline in Gen Z and millennial engagement, and American Staffing Association CEO Richard Wahlquist told Business Insider that about three in 10 employees overall are not actively engaged. at work.

The disconnect, according to Gallup, also leads to a financial hit.

It costs the world about $8.8 trillion in productivity, the organization said.