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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Is A.I. coming for your job?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We used to think that machines would only take over manual work. Now A.I. looks capable of anything. Will work become a luxury for a select few? Are there some jobs that can never be automated? Alex Andreou talks to Allison Pugh – author of The Last Human Job – about tech’s growing power and why our humanity depends on the connections that work fosters.   Buy The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too.   We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit.   www.patreon.com/bunkercast   Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Art by James Parrett. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production   www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Go to Shopify. Go to Shopify. dot co. dot UK slash revenue or lower case. Go to Shopify.co. UK slash revenue to take your business to the next level today. Shopify.co. UK slash revenue. and welcome to the Bunker Daily. I'm your host Alex Andro. Human beings are social

0:45.3

creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company and

0:49.9

not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others, we are social in a more elemental way.

0:55.8

Simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

1:01.6

Those are the words of surgeon and public health advocates at all go one day.

1:05.8

Yet with everything from drone couriers to self-checkouts, internet banking and care Robots, the interaction is being reduced.

1:15.7

An issue which concerns my guest today, a professor of sociology at the University of

1:20.8

Virginia, and is the subject of her new book, The Last Human Job.

1:26.0

Welcome to the bunker, Professor Allison Pugh.

1:28.0

Thank you.

1:29.0

Thanks for having me.

1:30.0

Allison, can we start with a few basic concepts?

1:33.6

How do you define the concept of connective labor?

1:38.2

So connective labor is my term

1:41.0

for the work that underlies so much of the work that people do, the teaching,

1:49.0

the healing, the counseling, giving advice,

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