The Second Machine Age
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1 episodeThe Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat Debating the True Risks of Advanced Models
An unnamed guest states they wrote The Second Machine Age in 2014, in which they warned that white-collar workers such as radiologists were at risk from AI. The speaker openly admits the prediction was "dead flat wrong": unemployment across wealthy countries has since reached historic lows and the greater problem has been a shortage of qualified workers. They then contrast those earlier forecasts with newer research by co-author Eric Brynjolfsson on faint current signals of AI-related job displacement.
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