The Second Machine Age · What Did They Read?

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AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman Yampolskiy

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, 17 September 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 1 hr 2 min in.

Andrew McAfee mentions his 2014 book The Second Machine Age in the context of revisiting predictions he made about AI and jobs. At the time he thought white-collar workers such as radiologists were in serious danger from AI, but he candidly says he was "dead flat wrong": unemployment across the rich world has hit historic lows, and the bigger problem has turned out to be finding qualified workers, not a shortage of work.

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