Wrong target: Why should an AI workflow tracker evoke outrage?
Live MintAn artificial intelligence system designed to monitor workflows and detect inefficient parts has been attracting flak online. To advertise it, Y Combinator put out a video clip that shows the startup’s co-founders Vivaan Baid and Kushal Mohta role-playing a manager and shop-floor supervisor who spot a laggard on the assembly line, thanks to AI-enabled cameras and computer-vision software, and pull him up. Meta’s boss Mark Zuckerberg, for example, reportedly plans to use AI to generate much of the software code the company requires. It’s for us to envision what AI can do for us, whether it involves cracking protein structures to invent new therapies or recalibrating a magnetic field that contains the plasma in which nuclear fusion can take place at temperatures in excess of 10,000° Celsius. If anything deserves outrage, it’s how lax we have been on this front, not a workflow tracker that promises marginal gains in efficiency.
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