Chatbots Won’t Take Many Jobs w/ Aaron Benanav - Tech Won’t Save Us
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Tech boosters are warning chatbots will take our jobs, but should be believe them? Aaron Benanav explains what’s actually going on in the economy, why those predictions are another form of hype, and how employers might use AI to increase their power over workers.

Notes

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.

Guest

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.

Links

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.