Prediction, mark the day: Within 2 years from today we will see the first cases where IT workers seek work injury compensation, from mental damage caused by AI.
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Prediction, mark the day: Within 2 years from today we will see the first cases where IT workers seek work injury compensation, from mental damage caused by AI.
#GenAI undermines mental health in (at least) 3 ways:
1. Psychosis, delusion, detachment from reality.
2. Addiction.
3. Brainrot, loss of the ability to solve and analyze problems.I am seeing this all around me with friends and colleagues. Believing that you can somehow dodge this is like believing you wont get addicted to heroine.
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Prediction, mark the day: Within 2 years from today we will see the first cases where IT workers seek work injury compensation, from mental damage caused by AI.
#GenAI undermines mental health in (at least) 3 ways:
1. Psychosis, delusion, detachment from reality.
2. Addiction.
3. Brainrot, loss of the ability to solve and analyze problems.I am seeing this all around me with friends and colleagues. Believing that you can somehow dodge this is like believing you wont get addicted to heroine.
Believing that you can "undo" this by just stopping and retraining yourself is also delusional.
The famous brain plasticity and malleability is both a blessing and a curse. The brain is a system with a high degree of hysteresis: Undoing a change does not get you back to the starting point. It gets you back to another baseline.
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B bogwitch@social.data.coop shared this topic
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Believing that you can "undo" this by just stopping and retraining yourself is also delusional.
The famous brain plasticity and malleability is both a blessing and a curse. The brain is a system with a high degree of hysteresis: Undoing a change does not get you back to the starting point. It gets you back to another baseline.
@kamstrup And like all those suffering from work-related stress-induced depression, anxiety and so on, they won't get anything out of it, because it won't be recognized as a work-related injury.
But I know that wasn't the point, and I fully agree with your post.
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@kamstrup And like all those suffering from work-related stress-induced depression, anxiety and so on, they won't get anything out of it, because it won't be recognized as a work-related injury.
But I know that wasn't the point, and I fully agree with your post.
@svedigtype yeah, I fear that you are right. Which is why I only wrote that there would be cases, not that they would be won. 🥲
One thing that a victim would have going for them is that many places actively promote ai usage in written communication to employees, and that there is a subscription associated with it. So there is a paper trail documenting the events.
The true color of the ai proponents will be clear when they realize that they have to obscure this trail and we catch them doing it.
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@svedigtype yeah, I fear that you are right. Which is why I only wrote that there would be cases, not that they would be won. 🥲
One thing that a victim would have going for them is that many places actively promote ai usage in written communication to employees, and that there is a subscription associated with it. So there is a paper trail documenting the events.
The true color of the ai proponents will be clear when they realize that they have to obscure this trail and we catch them doing it.
@kamstrup Yeah, it might be easier to document, after all, since it's a tool that's being practically forced upon employees like that
I certainly hope so, anyway!
