Will AI Really Take Our Jobs? And If So, Then What? — With Albert Wenger

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures, and author of The World After Capital. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a frank conversation about whether AI will lead to job loss and what to do about it. In an unusual setup, the journalist in this conversation (Alex) argues that we have less to worry about AI automating jobs than the popular narrative, and the VC (Wenger) makes the case that it will definitely happen and how we should adjust. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss Wenger's five year experiment with UBI. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Let's discuss or debate whether AI will lead to job loss and what to do about it.
0:06.4	All that coming up right after this.
0:08.5	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
0:14.6	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your work and personal life.
0:20.3	Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:25.6	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:31.3	We have a great show for you today.
0:32.9	We're going to talk about whether AI will actually create job loss, whether we need UBI, and what's coming down the
0:39.0	pike in that world.
0:40.4	We're joined by a terrific guest, someone I got a chance to meet last year, and I'm so happy
0:44.5	to bring on the show.
0:45.8	Albert Venger is here with us.
0:47.2	He's a partner at Union Square Ventures and the author of the World After Capital.
0:51.9	Albert, welcome to the show.
0:53.5	It's good to be here, Alex. One broad
0:55.3	question to begin with, do you believe that the current state of AI is going to displace people
1:00.2	from jobs? And then, I guess, looking down the road, you know, do you think the next wave is really
1:06.5	going to start doing that? I don't like the framing of this question.
1:12.8	We want automation.
1:16.5	And when I say we want, who is the we and why do we want it?
1:17.8	We, I think, is humanity.
1:19.4	And why do we want it? It's because automation has been good to us, right?
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