The Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Technologies on Work

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It's also a big difference from the kind of general narratives that we hear about why people aren't working right like there's been a big push by financial publications places like the Wall Street Journal to say people just don't want to go back to work. And I think that also gives you quite a contrast from the narratives that like robots are taking our jobs or whatever and then on the other hand we're lessening the regulations on child labor so that more companies can hire children. It's just wild and I don't think we really need to go on more but that would be a disturbing headline right like the children are take our jobs. Right. But now let's move on, obviously we

Paris Marx is joined by Aaron Benanav to discuss OpenAI’s claims that generative AI will take our jobs, how previous periods of automation hype haven’t resulted in mass job loss, and why we need to ensure it doesn’t further empower employers.

Aaron Benanav is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and the author of Automation and the Future of Work. Follow Aaron on Twitter at @abenanav.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode:

Aaron wrote about why chatbots won’t take your job for the New Statesman.
Microsoft is rolling out generative AI in its enterprise software services and its Azure platform.
The Writers Guild is proposing contract language on AI in scriptwriting to ensure writers still get the credit.

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