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#291 - John Danaher - What Happens If Robots Automate The World?

Mar 6, 2021
01:17:11

John Danaher is an author and a lecturer at the National University of Ireland.

Having a job is valorised in modern society. But if our jobs are taken over by robots, will we find a sense of purpose in other things outside of work, or are we just going to lead meaningless lives?

Expect to learn why technological unemployment might be desirable, what a cyborg utopia might look like, why John thinks losing work might not result in loss of purpose, the risks of sacrificing human values in pursuit of utopia and much more...

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