Get ready for this to become a common theme. Boardrooms are still engaged in the fever-dream promise that AI will solve all their problems, particularly those involving pesky humans. The simple lesson of "AI is another tool" will be a hard-learned one. Some industries, such as software, will take more time to mop themselves into a corner before they discover that velocity should never be a first-class concern. Speed should only come as a side-effect of quality.

Back in the nineties Ford ran a lot of ads about how quality was job one. But in the last twenty years their quality declined by a large amount at the same time other brands were getting better. I say that as a lifelong fan of Ford, quality was why I left the brand two years ago.

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446

Why are American tech-bros such loud-mouthed bullshitters ?

Reminds me of this disaster at Toyota,

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/toyota-bet-technology-wov...

Well, at least they learned from the experience, and that’s good.

The more interesting question, I think, is what proportion of businesses will choose the learn from Ford’s experience without first choosing to relive it?

Often people, and therefore also organisations, struggle to usefully learn from the experience of others without repeating the same mistakes, and experiencing the same pain.

Talk about making a huge sale to a car sales-man and totally pawning them. Tech has evolved into next-gen "selling science".

Amongst other things, AI won’t buy cars.

> while some workers will also help improve and train the AI systems

Our AI sucked but that doesn't mean less AI. We need better AI, not humans.