Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2022-06-02
Books mentioned on Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
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.
Alex Kantrowitz recommended The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and others. Erik Brynjolfsson discussed Foundation by Isaac Asimov and The Mind's I by Douglas R. Hofstadter and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Second Machine Age
The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee is a prominent non-fiction book that explores the exponential power of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and how the computer revolution is fundamentally reshaping modern economics and society.
Recommended“he is a professor and senior fellow at stanford university director of the digital economy lab there and author of co-author of a great book the second machine age which i recommend you pick up eric”
Where to get it
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Foundation
Foundation by Isaac Asimov is a classic science fiction masterpiece that chronicles a group of scientists working to preserve knowledge and shorten a dark age through the science of psychohistory.
Discussed“since i was a kid i was a fan of science fiction and i always saw and imagined the way that technology could change the world and you know i read isaac asimov's foundation series where he made up this profession of psycho historians”
Where to get it
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The Mind's I
The Mind's I is a collaborative exploration of the self and consciousness edited by Douglas R.
Discussed“well pretty early honestly i mean i definitely by high school i was reading uh you know the mind's eye and douglas hofstetter and patrick winston had a book on artificial intelligence”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so the way i came across your work was i was in amazon headquarters reporting for my book always day one talking about how ai and corporations will will mesh and how that changes work”
“and of course if you read isaac asimov it's you know irobot goes back to the 50s and 60s when he was writing some of those stories”