Someone at work said something along the lines of "so AI is going to write the documents and then people will use AI to summarise them". I think this is a good opportunity to rationalise bureaucracy but I fear we will only mindlessly automate it.

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7952 a day ago | parent [-]

With many bureaucratic systems AI seems to be used to build a better horse when cars and tractors already exist. Everything was built for a paper based world and was never designed with data or automation in mind.

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phil21 a day ago | parent [-]

I see it as the first step towards removing entire workflows like this.

Once the humans are removed, there is far less motivated reasoning to keep that process alive if it’s just robots burning tokens passing paper back and forth.

I will likely somehow be proven wrong, but it is one of the main uses I am optimistic for in the AI space.

	▲	7952 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes that is a good point and AI also gives us tools to make traditional systems more quickly. It could actually deliver on some of the original benefit promised by computing.