Are Robotic Jobs a Good Idea?

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Otofye: It's intuitively plausible to me that aartistic jobs, or a entertainment industry jobs, are probably not going to be subject to on a wide scale automation. I am sceptical as to whether and people will be that interested in robosh or computer created art. These are so called super star markets where a handful of individuals tend to extract most of the value from those markets. So i don't think we should be reassured by that notion. There are other kinds of jobs that we might expect to hold up or be more resilient to automation,. But i'm not ly convinced that they will be that resilient to autimation either - oftentimes these are jobs that few

Humans build machines, in part, to relieve themselves from the burden of work on difficult, repetitive tasks. And yet, despite the fact that machines are everywhere, most of us are still working pretty hard. But maybe that’s about to change. Futurists like John Danaher believe that society is finally on the brink of making a transition to a world in which work would be optional, rather than mandatory — and he thinks that’s a very good thing. It will take some adjusting, personally as well as economically, but he envisions a future in which human creativity and artistic impulse can flourish in a world free of the demands of working for a living. We talk about what that would entail, whether it’s realistic, and what comes next.

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John Danaher received an LLM degree from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. from University College, Cork. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research is situated at the overlap of legal studies and philosophy, and frequently involves questions of technology, automation, and the future. He is the coeditor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications, and author of the recent book Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work. He writes frequently for publications such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Irish Times, and is the host of his own podcast, Philosophical Disquisitions.