The AI training is likely not to replace them but monitor the quality and speed to find “efficiency gains” in the process and procedure. The AI is learning how to make a garment to know how to help managers be more overbearing.
Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they can raise your premiums by $10 that month to punish you for inattentive driving. Same gadget, different social arrangement.
The AI training is likely not to replace them but monitor the quality and speed to find “efficiency gains” in the process and procedure. The AI is learning how to make a garment to know how to help managers be more overbearing.
https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/