Recently there have been a lot of talks about AI work tracking. Employers have always kept an eye on their workers, but with the increase in home-based working during the pandemic, it has gone further. Unexpectedly, people may even prefer having their everyday work tracked if it is intended to inform them of their performance rather to creepily control them. Acording to Roshni Raveendhran and Nathanael Fast paper people are considerably more receptive to, and even motivated by, tracking that is carried out by algorithms than by other people.
In series of experiments people who received feedback from humans versus algorithms were twice as likely to freely report that they felt judged (36 percent versus 17 percent). Participants said they’d feel less judged at the company using an algorithm, and as a result said they’d feel greater autonomy, and in turn would prefer to work there. Does it mean that AI will take control?
Do I think AI will take place of managers?
Although I think the idea of AI having such a big influence on employees’ work seems an upgrade. In my opinion, in certain aspects, it makes huge downgrades.
Technology cannot take the place of effective managers’ work. They bring diverse groups of people together, creating relationships and over time developing successful teams that complete challenging tasks. AI can’t create that sort of contact between people. What’s more this sort of solution closes people in bubbles making them work like machines. It might create a culture in which people go through the motions of being active while not accomplishing anything. Managers get to know their team members individually and work carefully to set expectations, be supportive, understand context, and give feedback and direction. That’s something AI can only mimic, without real relation, simple human emotions it’s a short-term solution which I think eventually won’t push forward the development of firms.
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In my opinion, the concept of AI giving feedback to workers could truly be fruitful. I fully agree that it eliminates the feeling of being judged thus enhancing the confidence and devotion of employees. However, considering the idea of superiors being substituted by AI technologies, I don’t think that it would be beneficial. Of course, giving the position of leader to AI could tackle the problem of significant misunderstandings, conflicts and discrimination in the workplace driven by the incompetence of some employers. Nevertheless, healthy and strong human relationships are an integral part of the company’s prosperity since it is the main part of the organization’s working organism and only humanoid managers could bring it about. Undoubtedly, decision assistance and feedback giving could be satisfied by AI, but creativity, empathy, curiosity, craving for innovation and development are exactly those features, possessed by humanoid leaders, that AI would lack.
I agree that artificial intelligence will not be able to replace the profession of managers due to the fact that decisions are made through interaction and the exchange of knowledge and ideas. But, for example, the profession of an accountant is quite likely, and in general all those that are related to algorithms and calculations
I think that managers can use Ai , but im not really sure if artificial systems could completely replace humans in this area. In some cases well programmed AI algorythm could do a better job , because of it’s consistancy and predictability people might feel calmer and do a better job . People tend to be judgy and leave comments that other might find tiring or unpleasant , but it would be extremely hard to wokr only with machines , because people need contact with other people, that’s our nature.