Chatbots Won’t Take Many Jobs w/ Aaron Benanav
Description
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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@40:03: For someone who seems to take such pride in critiquing the methods of studies with which he disagrees, this guest is rather glib about making unsupported accusations. E.g., what evidence is there for the broad accusation made at the time stamp?
@37:27: This was a flawed accusation. You stated that these people believe X and Y, which they explain by asserting that their belief in X leads them to believe in Y. You then simply asserted that their beliefs in Y lead them to believe in X. Where is the evidence for that accusation? In what way is their explanation insufficient to explain what we see?
Please think of another word for boost.