The Future of AI

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I wonder how your thinking on this has evolved as you've continued to think about the ways that technologies are deployed in society. I think what's interesting is that those visions often draw from science fiction, right, like Star Trek or the culture series of the story ductoros down and out of magic kingdom. What it shows is that even if we live in a world with limitless resources, there's still be a lot of reasons why people have conflictswhy people are unhappy. And so important not to get lost in Silicon Valley's utopia, which supports a silly venture capitalist strategy.

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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