{"id":7731,"date":"2021-01-19T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2021-01-19T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:29:28","slug":"why-automation-is-different-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7731","title":{"rendered":"Why Automation is Different this Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rise of the Machines \u2013 Why Automation is Different this Time\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WSKi8HfcxEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How is computerization affecting work and how might AI accelerate change? Erin pointed me to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q\">Kurzgesagt \u2013 In a Nutshell<\/a> a series of videos that explain things &#8220;in a nutshell&#8221; produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/kurzgesagt.org\/\">Kurzgesagt<\/a>, a German information design firm. They have a video (see above) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk\">The Rise of Machines<\/a> that nicely explains why automation is improving productivity while not increasing the number of jobs. If anything, automation driven by AI seems to be polarizing the market for human work into high-end cognitive jobs and low-end service jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is computerization affecting work and how might AI accelerate change? Erin pointed me to Kurzgesagt \u2013 In a Nutshell a series of videos that explain things &#8220;in a nutshell&#8221; produced by Kurzgesagt, a German information design firm. They have a video (see above) on The Rise of Machines that nicely explains why automation is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Automation is Different this Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,54,58,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-social-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}