Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss

"I think everybody is adopting AI irresponsibly and I think it's going to have a net negative outcome on the socio-economic standing of the world," said Bars Juhasz. "So let's see if we can't pitch more of a win-win future." Juhasz, CEO of no-code automation biz WorkBeaver, told The Register in an interview that he hopes to …

[Phil O'Sophical]

What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?

Is there a demand side?

[Yorick Hunt]

"Is there a demand side?"

From what I've seen, anyone with more than two functioning brain cells has been demanding it be eradicated.

[steelpillow]

It's the old manglement dilemma: do we do it medieval "Thou shalt!" style or agile "How can I help?" style: Do we demand our employees' respect and trust up front or do we respect and trust them up front?

AI will be no different from anything else that pointy-haired personages and their pets stick their fingers into.

[stiine]

They're about to find out what we found out three months ago, which is the education requirement to make an agent do what you wanted it to do effectively by prompting is going to immediately cut out a lot of normal people.

I guess Agent K was right, people are stupid.

[nematoad]

No, they are not!

...people are stupid.

Some might be, but the vast majority are not stupid.

They are unprepared and untrained.

How many job adverts in the past ten years had the proviso that candidates must be able to manipulate AI prompts and guide "agentic" AI?

Answer: None.

AI as we now know it is a very recent development so there are few to no knowledgable practitioners able to train the general workforce.

So to blame people for not knowing about how to handle AI *is* stupid and unless and until management work that out they are going to be floundering about wondering "Why am I not getting the benefits of AI that I was promised?"

[Boris the Cockroach]

Re: No, they are not!

Which means give it another 3 months and the recruiters and job adverts will be saying

"Must have 5 yrs + experience of running AI agents"

[elsergiovolador]

Virtue signalling

If corporation wants to do gooding, run.

[nobody who matters]

"What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?"

As they are predominantly USA based corporations who are pushing 'AI', and that US corporate attitude has for many years been that they think that they have the prerogative to tell the customer what it is that they want (and completely ignore and override the customer trying to tell them that they actually want something different), I think anybody who supposes that they can turn the AI marketing from AI corporation led to customer demand led is just pissing in the wind!

[Random as if !]

Agentic AI

We used to call it "Workflow" on our case management systems , I wonder if they have been replaced , and HMRC are not taxing anyone anymore , guess I'll ask the UK gov CTO how it's going...ah that well...nevermind ..

[jlturriff]

Windows and Mac only; not much use to us, eh?

[O'Reg Inalsin]

So many functions that need to be performed are related to digital communications, but I didn't see any plan for foiling phishing and other nasty stuff.

A company focusing on that alone - say, helping employees with opening mail in a sandbox,would actually be a help. Most people can't do it themselves, it seems.

[JacobZ]

All over by Christmas

If the AI vendors focused on the demand side, they would pack their bags and be home in time for Christmas