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Podcast: thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future
Episode: 1086 AI TOOK YOUR JOB—NOW WHAT? THE TASK ECONOMY AWAITS
Description: I tackle the big fear everyone’s got: will AI snatch your job? Spoiler: probably, if your gig’s something AI can do better. I dive into how we’re messing up by giving humans AI-suited jobs (like repetitive tasks) and AI human-suited jobs (like creative stuff). It’s a mess! But I’ve got a vision: a task economy where an AI dispatcher assigns jobs based on what humans and AI are best at. Picture this—you’re strolling by a park, and your phone pings: “Hey, rake this corner for $5?” You say yes, grab a rake, and boom, you’re paid...