“Many Utah workers don’t distrust technology itself,” writes Mike Walterman in an op-ed. “What we distrust is how technology is used by institutions that have already shown, repeatedly, that workers are interchangeable once the spreadsheet says so.”
When Utahns talk about artificial intelligence, I don’t hear fear. I hear calculations.
I’ve been a computer engineer since the early 1980s — long enough to remember when “automation” meant new machines, not a new management strategy. Long enough to … [3750 chars]
Source: Salt Lake Tribune | Published: 2026-01-22T13:05:00Z
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