McKinsey released a report saying that AI will contribute as much as $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually by automating 60 to 70% of workers labor time. The Writers Guild of America strike is another one where you have folks who are being faced with inflated AI hype and mythology, right? Like, GPT can take your jobs, can do your creative labor, can, you know, completely eliminate you all as creative workers.
Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.
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