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Name: A World Without Work
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Author: Daniel Susskind

Daniel Susskind

Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

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What’s in it for me? Understand the benefits and challenges that await us in an increasingly automated world.

You’ve certainly heard all kinds of outlandish predictions about how technology will change the world. Our societies will never be the same again! We will all become redundant! An army of robots will take our jobs!

Optimists and pessimists agree that there needs to be a change of direction. But what should it look like?

These blinks will cut through the noise and give you a better understanding of what exactly automation is, what it’ll do to human societies, and, most importantly, how we can embrace it to build a better world.

You’ll draw on lessons from history and economics to learn the history of technological change, and you’ll also see a new path forward – a path toward a world where work isn’t necessary for everyone to lead happy and fulfilling lives.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why we can’t know what the future holds;
some ways to bridge the great divide; and
that Homer wrote about AI – in a manner of speaking.

Machines will replace some jobs – but they’ll also complement others.

Machines are taking over. You’ve probably heard that before, right? And it’s not hard to see where the argument comes from – every year brings new technological innovations. As computers and robots become smarter and smarter, will humans become unnecessary?

Of course, real life is not quite so simple, so no need to fear! Machines will never take all our jobs. Their effect on the labor market is much more nuanced.

The key message here is: Machines will replace some jobs – but they’ll also complement others.

Fear of technological change is nothing new. Centuries ago, at the start of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, weavers destroyed early machines. These people – luddites, as they became known – feared for their jobs. And they did have some reason to worry; rapid technological change in their industry caused massive upheaval.

But was that change all bad?

Well, while some workers did suffer, others benefited. If a low-skilled worker learned how to use the new machines, his output increased massively and, eventually, so did his earnings.

New technology is often complementary. While it replaces some workers, it makes other workers more productive. How? By helping them with some of the more difficult tasks.

For example, algorithms that can process legal documents haven’t replaced lawyers. Instead, they freed up their time for more creative work like writing, problem-solving, and face-to-face meetings with clients.

This increased production leads to the second benefit of automation. Think about a country’s economy as a pie that everybody needs to share. Sure, machines do change how the shares in this pie are distributed. But they also make the pie itself so much bigger.

Not convinced? Well, ATMs – automated teller machines – are a good example. When they were first introduced, people feared that they would completely replace bank staff.

But let’s look at what actually happened. In the last 30 years, the number of ATMs in the USA quadrupled. At the same time, the number of human bank tellers also rose – by about 20 percent. ATMs replaced tellers when it came to handing out cash, sure. But they also freed up humans to give financial advice and offer personalized support.

The economy grew, and overall demand for banks and financial advice increased. All told, the average number of tellers per bank dropped by about a third over the last few decades. But the number of banks in which tellers could get a job rose by as much as 43 percent.

All jobs are at risk from technological change.

Whose jobs are machines taking? Is it people who work on assembly lines? Or cashiers at supermarkets? Or should brain surgeons, too, worry that one day a robot might replace them?

Well, the growth of technology will certainly affect everyone. But recent trends suggest some clues as to which sectors of the economy are more likely to be automated.

The breakthrough in AI research came when computers stopped trying to think like humans.

The ancient Greek poet Homer is most famous for The Iliad and The Odyssey. But did you know that he wrote about more than just heroes and battles? He also described what we would now call artificial intelligence, or AI. In The Iliad, Homer tells of “driverless” three-legged stools that would come to their owner when called – a bit like today’s autonomous cars.

Now, maybe Homer didn’t have self-driving vehicles in mind when he told that story. But it speaks to an important point: humans have long dreamed about machines capable of autonomy. And recent breakthroughs are making those dreams a reality.

Machines are getting better at all kinds of jobs, but technological progress will look different everywhere.

Science-fiction author William Gibson once said, “The future is here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” It’s useful to keep this line in mind when we’re discussing automation. When it comes to what computers can do, the future is very much now. AI can outperform humans in an ever-increasing number of tasks, from detecting liars to manufacturing prosthetic limbs.

But the jump from “AI can do it” to “AI will do it” is a big one, and this gap differs from one country to the next.

Increasingly capable machines will lead to huge job losses.

Looking for a job isn’t much fun, is it? Now imagine that you’re unemployed because your job has been automated. How are you supposed to find a job if you’ve been replaced by a machine? This challenge will most likely affect millions of people.

In the previous blinks, we learned that automation will expand the size of the economic pie. In other words, machines will create new jobs, which will offset unemployment. But will people fill those new jobs? Well, the answer is far from straightforward. There are too many obstacles along the way – like, for example, the mismatch of skills.

Automation has increased inequality by widening the income gap between jobs.

For most of human history, we struggled for subsistence. This term, coined by the well-known economist John Maynard Keynes, meant that human societies simply weren’t producing enough for everyone to live on. This made the question of how to distribute resources an afterthought.

Today’s technological advances mean that we manufacture enough for the entire world to live comfortably. The economic pie has grown in size – but how should we divide it?

When automation collapses the labor market, the “Big State” must ensure that wealth is distributed.

Traditionally, most of us have had to work for our share of the economic pie. But what happens when automation eliminates jobs? How are societies supposed to support people who have been replaced by machines?

If the labor market won’t do it, another institution has to step up. There’s only one organization with the power to do so: the state.

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A World Without Work (2020) is an exploration into how artificial intelligence will bring unemployment to so many industries – and why that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. The author outlines the history of technological progress and explains how new capabilities will allow for unprecedented productivity. Yes, many jobs will become irrelevant, but, as a society, we can ensure that everybody will be better off in this new world.

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Über den Autor

Daniel Susskind is the coauthor of The Future of the Professions, named one of the best books of 2016 by the Financial Times, New Scientist, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a fellow in economics at Balliol College, Oxford. Previously, he was a policy adviser for the British Strategy Unit and a senior adviser to the UK government.

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