But was it worth the ensuing backlash that has turned into a nationwide controversy and launched a broader conversation about widespread job destruction that AI could cause? The station's editor — who's been accused of "sacrificing humans on the altar of technology," as the NYT puts it — sounds ambivalent.
"I have been turned into a job-killing monster who wants to replace real people with avatars," Mariusz Marcin Pulit, the editor-in-chief of Radio Krakow told the NYT. He maintains that it was never his intention to replace human workers with AI — even though that's exactly what he did.