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by nradov 26 days ago
On the positive side, AI agents are largely immune to the "principal-agent problem". Human employees will tend to optimize for their own interests rather than those of management or shareholders. For example, we've all heard of "resume-oriented development" where developers will pick overly complex platform technologies or methodologies even if it doesn't meet the organization's needs because they think that will help them get a better job.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/principal-agent-problem...

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Except the people using the AIs still suffer from the problem. Using AI itself is very likely to be a technology picked for resume stuffing.