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Nevada Will Use AI To Decide Worker Benefits
The state of Nevada is working with Google on a generative AI system that will analyze transcripts of their appeal process to decide which workers will receive benefits.
Nevada officials say the Google system will speed up the appeals process—cutting the time it takes referees to write a determination from several hours to just five minutes, in some cases—helping the state work through a stubborn backlog of cases that have been pending since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Via Gizmodo.)
In his self-published online 2002 novella Manna, Marshall Brain describes a computer system that runs business, micromanaging employees and even taking over firing and hiring:
Then there were all the unemployed people. Between Manna improving efficiency and forcing out the managers, plus overseas outsourcing taking out white collar jobs, plus machines like the automated checkout lines and burger flippers coming on line and so on, there were plenty of people who were unemployed. Unemployed people went around all day applying to jobs. But in a sense, that was pointless. All of the interconnected Manna systems knew every single person in the job pool. Manna also knew the performance of every single person who had ever worked in the system. You were in an incredibly bad spot if you were unemployed.
(Read more about AI-based hiring and firing)
(Via Gizmodo.)
The system will be the first of its kind in the country and represents a significant experiment by state officials and Google in allowing generative AI to influence a high-stakes government decision—one that could put thousands of dollars in unemployed Nevadans’ pockets or take it away.
The effect of Manna was to stratify out all the minimum wage workers in America. At the bottom you had the people who were unemployable. They had screwed up and been blacklisted by Manna. They were back living with their parents or sleeping on the sofa with a friend. You could get yourself un-blacklisted, but if you got blacklisted more than a couple times, you were dead.
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