Feminism in Crisis as IBM Announces Plan to Replace Human Resources Department with AI

Today, this woman was attempting a cute day-in-the-life Tik Tok for the Wes Anderson trend, when in the middle of filming Amazon laid her off. pic.twitter.com/kXUhpjKrI1

— MERC with a 👄 on tumblr dot com slash mercuryal (@Mercuryal) April 27, 2023

A day in the life of an unemployed female is the same thing as a day in the life of an employed female pic.twitter.com/WzD2JEqaXN

— 🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴 (@JoshLekach) April 22, 2023

Women were always much less competent than men.

Not sure why they’re surprised to find they’re less competent than robots.

RT:

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) expects to cut nearly 8,000 jobs in the coming years and replace them with AI, the CEO of the US tech giant, Arvind Krishna, has told Bloomberg.

In an interview published on Tuesday, Krishna said the company plans to slow or completely suspend hiring for back-office functions such as human resources, noting that these non-customer-facing roles currently amount to nearly 26,000 workers.

“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krishna said, suggesting that AI-induced job cuts could affect some 7,800 workers.

An IBM spokesperson also told the news agency that the company doesn’t currently intend to fire any people filling these roles, but pointed out that any jobs vacated by attrition would no longer be refilled.

In an emailed comment to Business Insider, another spokesperson for the tech giant also explained that there is “no blanket hiring ‘pause’ in place” and that IBM is “being deliberate and thoughtful in our hiring with a focus on revenue-generating roles.” The spokesperson added that the company is being “very selective when filling jobs that don’t directly touch our clients or technology,” noting that IBM is still actively hiring for thousands of positions.

HR was always a totally vaginal concept.

If men actually needed this sort of thing, it would be called “The Bro Department” and every meeting would begin with “what’s going on, bro?”