Today, we are joined once again by Jack Meyer (check out our previous episode with him here: “Abundance, with Jack Meyer”). Jack is an economics masters student at Oxford, as well as an aspiring political economist and economic historian. His current areas of study include innovation, development and inequality. You can find him on Twitter/X @jackbmeyer and on Substack, where he publishes the newsletter Public Works.
On this episode, we discuss the employment impacts of artificial intelligence. This has become a hot topic of discourse over the last year or so, as AI progresses and many people’s anxiety increases about the potential for mass unemployment as a result of AI taking jobs that were once done by humans. So in this episode, we talk a bit about what AI might do to employment in the future, and we talk a lot about what it seems to be doing to the labor market right now. We take Jack’s recent Substack post “AI Might Not Be Taking Your Job Anytime Soon” as the jumping-off point for this conversation.
Credits
Theme music by our youngest brother Tate.
Cover art by Arthur Santoro.
