How to make yourself more human in an automated world | Kevin Roose

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Humans can have a complex relationship with technology: tools like smartphones make our lives easier, but they can also be a source of anxiety or dependence. The internet can be an amazing place, or it can be a doom scrolling nightmare. And then there’s the always looming threat that our jobs–even the ones we thought only humans could do, like making art–could be lost to automation. Kevin Roose is a tech journalist who writes about the intersection of tech, business, and culture. In today’s episode, he talks about the shift of technology’s role in our lives and how we can set up boundaries with our devices to regain our autonomy. He also shares why he’s optimistic about the future, and his view on how futureproofing your job in an automated world has less to do with sharpening up our coding skills and more to do with leaning into our shared humanity.

This is an episode of How to Be a Better Human, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. For more episodes, follow How to Be a Better Human wherever you're listening to this.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.0	Hi everyone, I have something different for you today. We're sharing an episode of
0:14.0	How to Be a Better Human, another podcast in the Ted Audio Collective.
0:19.0	It's hosted by comedian Chris Duffy and focuses on the big and small ways
0:24.0	we can all learn to be a little less terrible.
0:27.0	Here's an episode we thought you'd like, and if you want more, follow how to be a
0:31.5	better human wherever you're listening to this podcast.
0:38.0	You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host Chris Duffy and
0:42.0	today we're talking about the surprising ways that artificial intelligence
0:45.0	and automation will affect both the future of our jobs and our own behavior
0:50.0	beyond the workplace.
0:52.0	Okay, hi, this is actually Chris, this voice you're hearing right now, this is really me.
0:56.0	The voice that you heard before, that was computer generated based on audio
1:00.0	of me from past episodes.
1:02.0	And the fact that it's even remotely possible to create a computer-generated
1:06.0	version of my voice is terrifying. Even if that voice sounded like he was maybe
1:10.0	not fully enthused about doing this show and needed a cup of coffee.
1:14.0	But I am scared about that because I need this job, I don't want to be replaced
1:17.0	with a hosting robot, and you know, that fear, that fear of automation coming
1:23.0	for our jobs and changing the way that we work. That is something that our
1:26.0	guest today, Kevin Rusk knows very well. Kevin is a columnist for the New
1:31.0	York Times and the author of a recent book called Future Proof, nine rules for
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