A World Without Work: Technology, AI, and Structural Unemployment
This lecture critically examines the potential for structural technological unemployment, analyzing historical automation anxieties against the backdrop of contemporary AI advancements. It explores economic mechanisms like task encroachment and the productivity effect, concluding with a discussion on distribution, contribution, power, and meaning in a future without work.
// Introduction — the two forces technology has on work
// Why the Luddites were wrong — and why past tech fears have been misplaced
// The age of labor — and the question of whether it can end
// Task encroachment — machines taking on everything humans once did
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