Companies in Germany Tend to Expect Salaries to Fall Due to the Use of Artificial Intelligence | ifo Institute

https://www.ifo.de/en/press-release/2026-08-12/companies-germany-tend-expect-salaries-fall-due-use-artificial

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 9 pts · 43d

That headline right there is why Assumed Intelligence is being pushed so hard down our throats.

It will work .. right until the techbros start charging actual cost for their "service", at which point we'll discover that we can in fact crash the global economy.

MattR@feddit.org · 8 pts · 43d

Those asshole companies can go fuck themselves.

Ooops@feddit.org · 4 pts · 43d

Yeah, and techbros and their lobbyists also totally expect that they can get rid of all qualified workers with AI to only have barely-paid and dependent serfs again. Will totally happen if they just believe hard enough in that tale...

tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org · -2 pts · 43d (1 reply)

... depending on the qualifications of their employees, a third to half of companies expect salaries to remain stable. “From the point of view of many companies, artificial intelligence will not affect salaries equally for all employees,” says ifo researcher Anna Ruffert.

“They are most likely to expect salaries to fall for less experienced workers.” Service providers most frequently expect salaries to fall for their workers.

For employees with a (technical) university degree, there is hardly any change in the expectations regarding a pay cut. However, they have the chance more often to see an increase in their salary, especially in conjunction with more work experience.

It's a bit more nuanced, but the headline fits good into OP (and feddit.org's) propaganda drive.

lokalhorst@feddit.org · 7 pts · 43d

Wdym? I know we are all genocide supporters, but what is it now? I haven't got the new propaganda instructions from the feddit.org leadership yet, that's why I am asking.