Is AI Coming For Your Job? | Zack Kass
The Art of Charm
Dockworkers, Purpose, and Automation
Zack recounts longshoremen striking to prevent automation, showing that workers fight to protect purpose, not just pay.
AJ and Johnny sit down with Zack Kass, AI futurist and author of The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential, to explore how artificial intelligence will reshape identity, purpose, and meaning.
Zack breaks down why our fear of AI isn’t really about machines; it’s about identity displacement. They dive deep into how creativity, purpose, and work evolve when technology becomes capable of doing almost everything. From artists confronting AI-generated art to professionals watching automation change their industries, Zack explains why humanity’s next great challenge isn’t survival, it’s spiritual.
This episode unpacks how to navigate the coming era with optimism, connection, and mastery — and why the most valuable skill of the future is still deeply, unapologetically human.
Chapters:
00:00 – Facing the fear: AI, art, and identity
06:00 – The loss of purpose in the age of automation
10:00 – Infinite creativity and the watercooler effect
15:00 – Why community and shared experience still matter
20:00 – The automation boundary: where do we stop?
25:00 – Political protection, purpose, and work that stays human
30:00 – AI, inequality, and the distribution problem
35:00 – The real reason cost of living is broken
40:00 – Connection vs. artificial intimacy
50:00 – How to stay human: learn, lead, and live with optimism
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Episode resources:
The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential
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