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🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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To futureproof your job against robots and AI, you should learn how to code, brush up on your math skills and crack open an engineering textbook, right? Wrong. In this surprisingly comforting talk, tech journalist Kevin Roose makes the case that rather than trying to compete with the machines, we should instead focus on what makes us uniquely human.
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0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
0:08.0 | Every year, the machines we use are becoming smarter and faster and cheaper. |
0:13.0 | So how are we supposed to compete with them for jobs? |
0:19.0 | This is Ted Business. I'm Madu back in Ola. |
0:22.0 | And that is the question Kevin Rousse explores in today's talk |
0:26.0 | and in his book, Future Proof, Nine Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation. |
0:31.0 | Kevin's a technology writer for The New York Times and makes the case |
0:35.0 | that in order for us to compete against AI, we have to bring more of our humanity to work, |
0:40.0 | focusing on what we do well as people instead of trying to outdo the robots. |
0:45.0 | This might sound familiar. A few weeks ago, we played a talk by Kaifu Lee |
0:49.0 | who also proposed that AI can actually help us be more human. |
0:54.0 | AI is taking away a lot of routine jobs, but routine jobs are not what we're about. |
1:00.0 | Why we exist is love. When we hold our newborn baby, love it for sight, |
1:06.0 | when we help someone in need, humans are uniquely able to give and receive love. |
1:12.0 | So as AI takes away the routine jobs, I like to think we can, we should, |
1:17.0 | and we must create jobs of compassion. |
1:20.0 | Jobs of compassion. |
1:22.0 | In addition, Kaifu says more of our jobs should require creativity. |
1:26.0 | So really, he's helping us figure out how the job market as a whole needs to evolve. |
1:31.0 | So there you have it, a blueprint of coexistence for humans and AI. |
1:37.0 | And what Kevin's going to do in this talk is make it personal |
1:40.0 | and help us figure out how to make any job more human, starting with his own. |
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