Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2021-03-09
Alex Kantrowitz & Kevin Roose: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast (Mar 2021)
Will Artificial Intelligence Take Our Jobs? A Conversation with Kevin Roose, NYT Columnist and Futureproof author
Artificial intelligence may take our jobs, or it may give us new freedom in the workplace. The debate is heating up as this technology is starting to enter the workplace in a real way.
Alex Kantrowitz discussed Futureproof by Kevin Roose and Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Kevin Roose recommended Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Futureproof
Discussed“And you use it to lead off your book, Future Proof, about how automation is starting to come into the American workforce or the global workforce. So, why did you pick this topic?”
Where to get it
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Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber is an incisive examination of modern employment, exploring how a vast proliferation of high-prestige yet entirely pointless administrative roles came to dominate corporate and bureaucratic culture.
Discussed“I mean, there's even a full book on it called Bullshit Jobs where people just sit around and do nothing because the system requires them to do it.”
Where to get it
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Ghost Work
Recommended“There's a great book called Ghost Work by two technologists, Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri. And they talk about all of the kind of low-end, mundane labor, generally very low-paid labor that is used to make AI systems function.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Futureproof
“He is a New York Times columnist and author of Future Proof, Nine Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, which comes out Tuesday, March 9th.”
Plugged Always Day One
“At the end of the book that I wrote about this stuff, always day one, we talk, I talk a little bit about the case for thoughtful invention and how like we have this technology at our fingertips and we can do amazingly powerful things about them”
Passing Futureproof
“He's a New York times technology columnist, also the author of future proof, nine rules for humans in the age of automation.”
Passing Futureproof
“And we're back for the third segment of the Big Technology Podcast here with Kevin Ruse of the New York Times and author of Future Proof, Nine Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation.”