Tech companies should teach AI to workers, not just replace them.

Daily Debate #589: "Tech companies should teach AI to workers, not just replace them.". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: Noam Chomsky.

If the goal of using AI is improve companies' efficiency and lower overall budgets, it would defeat the purpose to only teach it to employees with no intent of having it replace them.

You're confusing efficiency with elimination. A trained workforce deploys AI better, faster, with fewer costly mistakes and zero retraining cycles. Companies that taught workers beat those that replaced them—retention saves more than headcount cuts. Why torch institutional knowledge for a chatbot?