{"id":513829,"date":"2026-07-07T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513829\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:47:11","slug":"efficiency-cannot-be-the-only-measure-of-progress-with-ai-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513829\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency cannot be the only measure of progress with AI \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 We are repeatedly told that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> will \u201cfree\u201d workers from boring tasks. That may be true for some. But for many, it will simply remove the worker from the task altogether and, in many cases, already has.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The problem is not that technology is advancing. It needs to. The problem is the speed at which AI is being absorbed into workplaces before we even learn who benefits, who loses and what kind of working life will be thrusted on us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Entry-level jobs, creative roles, customer service, journalism, administration and even parts of healthcare and law are already being reshaped by systems that can produce, sort, summarise and imitate at scale. For young people trying to get a first step on the ladder, that should worry us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Also, AI is not only entering our jobs but our habits, how we write, think, apply for work, consume news and even speak to one another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">If we allow efficiency to become the only measure of progress, we may find that what has been automated away is not merely work, but human judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe don\u2019t know ourselves\u201d will soon be more than just a saying. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">DARREN CONDRON,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 We are repeatedly told that artificial intelligence will \u201cfree\u201d workers from boring tasks. That may be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,140333,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-513829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}