The problem is not artificial intelligence, it is the trap

The problem is not artificial intelligence, it is the trap

The employment problem in Argentina is not technology. Nor globalization. The problem is the trap. The trap of thinking that with old laws we will solve new problems. The trap of continuing to defend work structures that no longer exist. And the most dangerous trap: to believe that artificial intelligence is an enemy of the worker. Gentlemen, AI does not destroy jobs. It comes to destroy excuses.

Argentina arrives in the middle of 2025 with a beaten, fragmented and without a compass labor market. Unemployment touches 11%, but the true crack is not between employees and unemployed, but between formal and informal. More than 50% of Argentines work outside the system. (11 million) without contributions, without rights, without retirement. And without voice.

The minimum wage, even with increases, is not enough to cover a basic basket. In parallel, the unions, historically spine of Argentine work, today are debated between unemployment as resistance and dialogue as survival. Labor reforms promoted by the current government, although necessary, are partial and conflicting. Some brave, other makeshift. No systematic.

And meanwhile, the world advances. In Latin America, informality remains unwritten law. In Mexico, in Brazil, in Peru, half of the population works outside the system. The states fail to regulate, but also in innovating. There the artificial intelligence enters.

Because AI is not a threat. It is a lever.

With we can:

  • Automate settlements, procedures, compensation calculations.
  • Prevent conflicts before they explode.
  • Mapear real -time informality areas.
  • Train thousands of workers with personalized generative programs.
  • Audit work processes with algorithmic transparency.
  • Reduce judicial costs and accelerate failures that take years.

That is: formalize without bureaucracy, include without welfare and protect rights with efficiency. Do not replace the human, but to return the time that steals inefficiency.

But AI needs a legal and ethical structure so as not to become a precarization tool. Therefore, the debate is not whether to use it, but how. And that is where Argentina must lead, do not run from behind. Create rules that incorporate AI as a factor for strengthening labor law. Apply it in justice, in inspection, in training. And, above all, integrate it into social dialogue.

Because if the unions do not sit down to discuss algorithms, the future will pass them. And if employers do not understand that a company with poorly used generates more conflicts than solutions, the cost will be very high.

Today we have the opportunity to build a new labor pact: less load for the employer, more real protection for the dependent, and a state that digitizes instead of hindering.

Do we want to lower unemployment? Let’s formalize with Ia.

Do we want to reduce judgments? Let’s prevent ia.

Do we want to improve salaries? Let’s increase productivity with AI.

Do we want the work to be a source of dignity? That the AI will release it from mechanical, repetitive and alienating tasks. May the human being think again, to create, to decide.

The future of work is not discussed on the street or television studios. It is designed with policies, data and vision. The one who believes that AI is a luxury for first world countries, is condemned to continue exporting soy and talent.

Argentina has something that Silicon Valley does not have: history of struggle for labor rights. But it needs something that Silicon Valley has already incorporated: technology to guarantee those rights in the 21st century.

It is not the machine, it is the trap. And if we do not leave it, the 21st century will leave us out.

The solution is not to return to the past. Is in conquering the future. And for that, courage, intelligence is needed … and a little code.

Lawyer. Specialist in Work and Master in Employment and Judicial Innovation. Diploma applied to management in digital environments, explains why artificial intelligence is the only realistic tool to solve the Argentine and world labor dilemma.

Source: Ambito

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