Will AI Help or Hurt Workers?

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Dec. 30. Would you trade greater job productivity for a decline in job satisfaction? WSJ reporter Justin Lahart explains how new research suggests that AI could force just such a workplace tradeoff. Plus, tributes pour in for former President Jimmy Carter, who has died at 100. And investigators work to pinpoint the cause of a South Korean plane crash that killed 179 people. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:07.4	But Amazon Q helps streamline work so tasks like summarizing monthly results can be done in no time.
0:12.7	Learn what Amazon Q business can do for you at AWS.com slash learn more.
0:25.2	Tributes pour in after the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
0:31.3	Plus, Donald Trump wades into an immigration debate pitting populists against tech leaders.
0:35.1	And will AI help or hurt workers? New research shows it can boost productivity in the science world at least,
0:40.3	but at what cost? Having trained up to do this creative work of working on whiteboards and
0:46.6	thinking up new compounds and having that go away is disappointing. It's Monday, December 30th.
0:53.8	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,
0:56.0	and here is the AM edition of What's News. The top headlines and business stories moving your world
1:01.9	today. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored with a state funeral in Washington, D.C. on January 9th.
1:13.7	Carter died yesterday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
1:17.4	He was 100 years old and had been in hospice care since early 2023.
1:22.8	President Joe Biden paid tribute to Carter yesterday, praising his work after leaving office, which included monitoring global elections, building houses with habitat for humanity, and taking on the eradication of diseases.
1:35.7	Well, I find extraordinary about Jimmy Carter, though, there are millions of people all around the world, all over the world, feel they lost a friend as well, even though they
1:46.7	never met him. And that's because Jimmy Carter lived the life measured not by words, but by his
1:52.0	deeds. And for much more on Carter's political and personal legacy, check out the special edition
1:57.7	of What's News that we published yesterday evening.
2:01.6	Investigators are continuing to probe the crash of a South Korean passenger plane that killed
2:06.6	179 people this weekend. The plane, operated by South Korea's Cheju Air, skidded off the runway
2:14.2	as it attempted to land at an airport in the country's southwest before
2:18.3	colliding with a concrete barrier and bursting into flames. Shortly before landing, the airport's
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