![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We have been grappling with the consequences of machines replacing people for nearly 1,000 years. The really pressing problem is among low-wage workers whom new technology - for example, at Amazon - already puts under greater surveillance and squeezes to work harder, in more difficult conditions. More educated and better resourced workers - think of many on Wall Street - will probably figure some of this out for themselves. But this needs to be combined with an explicit recognition that any resulting productivity gains must be shared with workers, in terms of higher incomes and better working conditions. We need, instead, a pivot on the part of inventors, entrepreneurs and policymakers toward a focus on “machine usefulness,” the idea that computers should primarily enhance human capabilities. Company Town Automated writing? Not so fast, says the Writers Guild of AmericaĪs AI is becoming more ubiquitous, the Writers Guild is proposing some guidelines for how to regulate it and avoid writers being cut out of the creation of TV and film. ![]()
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