Comment by belter
4 months ago
> IBM have an incentive to try and pour water on the AI fire to try and sustain their business.
IBM has faced multiple lawsuits over the years. From age discrimination cases to various tactics allegedly used to push employees out, such as requiring them to relocate to states with more employer friendly laws only to terminate them afterward.
IBM is one of the clearest examples of a company that, if given the opportunity to replace human workers with AI, would not hesitate to do so. Assume therefore, the AI does not work for such a purpose...
If they could use THEIR AI to replace human workers, they would. If they learned that Claude or ChatGPT was better than an IBM consultant, they'd probably keep that to themselves.
I would argue they may have and are not keeping it to themselves. Announced partnership with Anthropic: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-10-07-2025-ibm-and-anthropic-p...