Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and professor at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of why our fears that artificial intelligence would take human jobs haven't yet come to fruition. We also cover how humans and AI can work together and how AI is changing work already. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss the latest on robotic process automation and address why we're working at all in the age of machines. Check out Prof. Brynjolfsson's paper: The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence

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0:00.0	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:05.0	What would it take to abolish poverty?
0:08.0	Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:10.0	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea.
0:14.0	I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers
0:19.0	for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.
0:23.6	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.6	LinkedIn Presents. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed nuance
0:45.0	conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:47.2	And we are coming to you for one more episode from Davos.
0:50.4	We've had a series of them.
0:51.9	And we're here in collaboration with the Web3 Foundation in unfinished.
0:55.7	It's been a heck of a week, five shows and two weeks. I'd love to hear what you think about it,
1:00.5	so please send feedback to Big Technology Podcast at gmail.com. Our guest today is Professor Eric Bryn Yolveson.
1:07.8	He is a professor and senior fellow at Stanford University, director of the digital
1:11.9	economy lab there, and co-author of a great book, The Second Machine Age, which I recommend you pick up.
1:19.3	Eric, welcome to the show. It's pleasure to be here, Alex. So the way I came across your work was I was
1:24.7	in Amazon headquarters reporting for my book Always Day 1 talking about how
1:28.5	AI and corporations will mesh and how that changes work. And I'm having a conversation about it
1:36.5	with Jeff Wilkie, who is the CEO of Consumer Worldwide there before he stepped down last year.
1:43.1	And he said you got to read Eric Brunielsen's book. So
1:47.5	I read it and I think that your work on the way that AI and work combine is really fascinating.
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