Job Automation

Job Automation

Tim O'Reilly, an older man with short gray hair wearing a light blue button-up shirt, stands outdoors with arms crossed, surrounded by green trees.
Media trailblazer Tim O’Reilly tells Big Think why AI requires "get yourself dirty" work — and warns us not to buy the hype.
Book cover of "The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything" by James Barrat, featuring a robot hand symbolizing AI, holding Earth against a white background.
The predictions of evolutionary theorists and current advances in “multimodal AI” offer strong clues to the future of employment.
An open book reveals binary code on the left page, symbolizing AI's complexity, while a silhouette of a person balancing on a tightrope graces the right, bridging precision and creativity in harmony.
Oxford professor of ethics, John Tasioulas, thinks we should consider the loss of opportunity for “striving and succeeding” that AI is likely to bring.
A silhouette of an archer centaur stands poised over a background of binary code, symbolizing the rise of more AI jobs.
Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.
A photo of a machine in a factory capturing the essence of AI work.
How will we actually feel when the things we do with care are suddenly dealt with in seconds by AI? Here’s a preliminary plan.
A man in a black suit and white shirt is smiling, unaffected by the doomer mindset.
When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.
three robots
Named "Phoenix," this AI-powered humanoid could be your next coworker.
newspapers on a printing press
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
It is often assumed that AI will become so advanced that the technology will be able to do anything. In reality, there are limits.