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We are not machines: the fight for the future of work
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A tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the economy as robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we worry that we're robotizing our work, what if the real risk is that we're robotizing ourselves? When prize-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O'Connor set out to investigate what was happening on the front lines of technological change, she found people who weren't losing their jobs to machines, but who felt they were losing something else instead. From translators forced to edit AI output to university graduates interviewed by software and warehouse workers surrounded by robots, she heard stories of work becoming lonelier, less creative, less human. But O'Connor also found hopeful stories of jobs being made better, safer and more enjoyable - where workers haven't rejected the new tools, but instead have learned to control them.
- Genres
- Science
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- ISBN
- 9780241704226
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