Daily: JOBS FOR THE DROIDS – the future of work with Dr Carl Benedikt Frey

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Technology will displace 47% of all jobs, said Dr Carl Benedikt Frey in a study he co-wrote called The Future Of Employment – a paper so influential that it’s at the centre of jobs policy for governments across the world. But what will replace those jobs? Will anything replace them? In his new book The Technology Trap Dr Frey describes how the same job destruction and extremes of poverty and great wealth that took place in the Industrial Revolution are happening all over again thanks to artificial intelligence and Big Data. So how will we work in the future? Should we celebrate the end of boring, repetitive jobs? And how can we plan for jobs of tomorrow when we can’t even conceptualise them? “The scale of jobs that are replaceable by technology – but that’s only a part of the question” “Machines perform poorly in creative or social tasks. That’s where most new jobs will be created.” Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:17.0	Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.
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1:13.3	A few years ago in a speech about automation, California Senator Jerry Brown advocated a
1:18.6	system of maintaining a universal basic income that ensures shelter, food, education and health coverage for every citizen.
1:26.5	His rationale was quite simple. The job losses coming down the track would be so profound and numerous that we had a choice of, as he put it,
1:35.9	welfare for all or warfare for all.
1:39.9	The COVID-19 pandemic has by general agreement supercharged that.
1:45.0	Countries all around the world are putting workers on Furlow, effectively trialing
1:48.9	universal basic income models for people who can't work. Manufacturers are investing in technologies that will altogether remove puny-virus susceptible humans from the chain.
2:00.0	Companies are adapting their working models to see how little can be centralized and test the limits of the virtual office.
2:07.0	To paraphrase the Wall Street Journal, the last time humans concentrated so hard on tablets, they had commandments on them.
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