{"id":75815,"date":"2024-12-10T20:43:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ai-company-trolls-san-francisco-with-billboards-saying-stop-hiring-humans\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T20:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:43:45","slug":"ai-company-trolls-san-francisco-with-billboards-saying-stop-hiring-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ai-company-trolls-san-francisco-with-billboards-saying-stop-hiring-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying \u201cstop hiring humans\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Since the dawn of the generative AI era a few years ago, the march of technology\u2014toward what tech companies hope will <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/09\/ai-superintelligence-looms-in-sam-altmans-new-essay-on-the-intelligence-age\/\">replace human intellectual labor<\/a>\u2014has continuously <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2024\/01\/ceos-say-generative-ai-will-result-in-job-cuts-in-2024\/\">sparked angst<\/a> about the future role humans will play in the job market. Will we all be replaced by machines?<\/p>\n<p>A Y-Combinator-backed company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artisan.co\/\">Artisan<\/a>, which sells customer service and sales workflow software, recently launched a provocative billboard campaign in San Francisco playing on that angst, <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ai-firms-stop-hiring-humans-billboard-campaign-sparks-outrage-2000536368\">reports Gizmodo<\/a>. It features the slogan &#8220;Stop Hiring Humans.&#8221; The company markets its software products as &#8220;AI Employees&#8221; or &#8220;Artisans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s billboards feature messages that might inspire nightmares among workers, like &#8220;Artisans won&#8217;t complain about work-life balance&#8221; and &#8220;The era of AI employees is here.&#8221; And they&#8217;re on display to the same human workforce the ads suggest replacing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/12\/ai-company-trolls-san-francisco-with-billboards-saying-stop-hiring-humans\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/12\/ai-company-trolls-san-francisco-with-billboards-saying-stop-hiring-humans\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the dawn of the generative AI era a few years ago, the march of technology\u2014toward what tech companies hope will replace human intellectual labor\u2014has continuously sparked angst about the future role humans will play in the job market. 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