AI Update Part 6: AI Researchers to Government: “We Can’t Stop Ourselves”
The question with any disarmament negotiation is “who goes first?” With AI, the answer may need to be that the US and China press pause at the same time.
AI Update Part 5: Why We’re Aiming Our Rocks at Data Centers
Data centers have created a rainbow coalition of opposition, what one comedian has called “the most bipartisan issue since beer.” But what’s really causing the opposition?
AI Update Part 4: How Government Can Help With the Job Transition
Another big transition is coming in the workforce. What can state government do to make it successful? One commission’s work offers some initial ideas.
AI Update Part 2: AI and Personal Agency
Option 1: AI could “take” your job.
Option 2: AI could also transform it for the better, or help you start the company of your dreams.
Option 2 will require all of us to exercise more “agency” than ever.
AI Update Part 1: Jobpocalypse When?
The start of a four-part series on surfing the AI tsunami.
How Long Can an EPOCH Last?
Researchers have identified the human capabilities most likely to enable us to be “safe” from the job invasion of AI. Surprise: AI is going after those capabilities as well.
Blessed Are the Monkeybearers
Nobody seems to want to “put the monkey on their back” at work. But what if putting the monkey on your back was a kind of superpower, a jetpack to success?
The Race for Third Place
I asked ChatGPT to write a post for me. Then I tried it for myself. When was the last time you went to a library?
Replacement Theory
Chat GPT would be delighted to take over my writing duties at boneconnector.com. He’d be a lot quicker than I am, and not half bad. But would I give him the job?
Should I Ditch the Dictionary and Drive a Dredge?
A new study attempts to rate the jobs most and least vulnerable to AI. It’s fun and thought-provoking — but don’t take it too seriously.
AI and Jobs Part 3: “Steering” AI With Policy
The AI ship has sailed. It will bring untold new wealth and brilliant products… and major disruption to the job market. Can policy tugboats steer it?
AI and Jobs Part 2: Seven “T” Jobs for the Future
AI and automation are going to take a lot of our current jobs — what might the jobs of the future look like? (deepai.org shows some of them)