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Oracles, Conspiracies, and the Case for Inefficiency—Co-host Roundtable

Beatrice Institute Podcast

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Is There a Human Centered Approach to Workplace Automation?

Christian Gautron is an alumna of Beatrice Institute before it was even Beatrice Institute. She's a logistics engineer at FedEx and specifically working on how the drivers interact with the entire system of delivery. Her question was, you know, obviously we want this to be more efficient, but what is it about the human the human worker that allows them to add value? And then how do we enhance things like freedom of choice in this process? So she has a I think it's forthcoming now a paper that specifically speaks to these questions in terms of the Amazon warehouses. The levels of inequality in 2022 rival and exceed the height of the Gilded Age,. which was sort of seen as the

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