[alicebot-aiethics] Computers vs. stock brokers/analysts ...

[Jon Baer]

"Bryan L. Fordham" wrote:

> > And it's only a matter of time before we have a bot for a CEO running a
> company,
> > then a Congressman, then the President, then well who knows ;-)
>
> I talked about this with a few people at work recently, but as a joke,
> saying I could replace much of upper management with bots and shell scripts.
> It was meant to be parody, but (unfortunately) it really doesn't seem that
> far-fetched...

Based on a true story ...

A friend in the music business asked me to come in one time and he showed me
what he actually had 4 people doing in the office, one to email contracts,
another to email contracts without certain info, and another two to gather data
from Pollstar (concert info).

One day + 4 Perl scripts + $500 = 4 jobless people

What even scarier is that many of the voice portal services include Majestic
like features like getting a call from an application saying things like "The
stock price in XYZ has reached $100, would you like to sell it?".

- Jon