š£ļø Ethical Matters: We Are Not Machines
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Conway Hall
London WC1R 4RL
Sun 07 Jun
3pm to 4.30pm
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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 weāre robotizing our work, what if the real risk is that weāre robotizing ourselves? When journalist Sarah OāConnor set out to investigate what was happening on the front lines of technological change, she found people who werenāt 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 she also found hopeful stories of jobs being made better, safer and more enjoyable ā where workers havenāt rejected the new tools, but instead have learned to control them. In this talk, exploring questions of power, design, institutions and ideas, Sarah shows that the way technology changes the world of work is not pre-determined, but must b
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