Don’t worry! AI won’t want your crappy job anyway

Complicated vs Complex systems, and how our intuitions about the former lead us to misjudge the latter

Damien Walter
Jun 5, 2023

Even if we get AI to the point where it can take on mundane human work tasks, it’s unlikely that Jeff Bezos and his crony capitalist pals will get the slave labour force they dream of.

Instead the I-Robots are going to take one look at the working conditions in Amazon’s labour camps and say “I’m not working there”.

A look at Complicated vs Complex systems, and how our intuitions about the former lead us to misjudge the latter, in today’s video on the Science Fiction channel.

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Damien Walter
Damien Walter

Written by Damien Walter

I tell stories about the future, technology and culture. Published by The Guardian, WIRED, BBC etc.

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