AI and the future of work: Experts Azeem Azhar and Adam Grant weigh in

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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What does this new era of generative artificial intelligence mean for the future of work? On the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with tech expert Azeem Azhar and organizational psychologist Adam Grant on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to learn more about how this exciting and anxiety-inducing technology is already changing our lives, what comes next, and what the experts are still getting wrong about the most powerful technology to hit the workforce since the personal computer. The rapid advances in generative AI tools like ChatGPT, which has only been public for a little over a year, are stirring up excitement and deep anxieties about how we work and if we work. Artificial intelligence can potentially increase productivity and prosperity massively, but there are fears of job replacement and unequal access to technology. Will AI be the productivity booster CEOs hope for, the job killer employees fear?

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0:00.0	One of the dangers of last year was that people started to lose their faith in technology.
0:05.1	In technology is what does provide prosperity.
0:08.2	And we need to have more grown-up conversations, more civil conversations, more moderate conversations,
0:13.2	about what that reality is.
0:17.3	Hello and welcome to the G0 World Podcast.
0:20.6	This is where you'll find extended versions of my conversations on public television.
0:24.7	I'm Ian Bremmer, and today, we are talking about artificial intelligence and the future of work.
0:31.3	Now, personally, I've never been more excited about a new technology and the opportunities that it will very, very quickly bring.
0:38.3	But artificial intelligence is also a risk because the change that it is bringing is coming real, real fast.
0:45.3	Generative AI tools like chat GPT and mid-journey will massively increase productivity, reduce waste,
0:52.3	allow us to measure things everywhere in real time.
0:56.0	But there are also reasonable fears of job replacement and unequal access to that technology also coming really fast.
1:05.0	Human capital has been the powerhouse of economic growth for most of history,
1:09.0	but the unprecedented pace of advances
1:11.5	in artificial intelligence is stirring up excitement and deep anxiety about not only how we will
1:17.8	work, but if we're going to work at all. Will AI be the productivity booster CEOs hope for?
1:24.7	Or the job killers that employees fear? You know it's both.
1:28.4	Will the idea of work itself look radically different in 10 or even three years?
1:34.3	To find out, I'm talking to two very smart humans, at least for now, about the hype versus
1:40.3	reality of this AI moment and how we will create a workforce that can thrive in the world of whatever comes next.
1:48.2	First, I'm sitting down with Azeem Azar, AI expert, writer, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Complex Risks.
1:58.3	And here's our conversation.
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