The Impacts of Chat GPT and Generative AI on the Economy

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Marcus: I think it's very likely that once again with chat GPT and generative AI that we don't see the same things but that doesn't mean that there won't be impacts as you're saying right. Microsoft is already releasing kind of like enterprise versions of chat GPT. It might allow employers to do much like what I was talking about with Amazon and with workers or truck drivers, might make it possible to like have a better surveillance infrastructure. Marcus: In countries where workers are stronger like in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, they have more of a say over how technologies are implemented.

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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