Rob Young
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216 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Sep
Rob Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's probably the length of a big London bus.
Laura Joy Peters, thanks very much for showing me around.
For more than two centuries each big new technology has sparked the same fear that machines will take odd jobs, but the evidence suggests something subtler.
Take typing.
It used to be a job.
Now it's just part of almost every white collar job.
This is something that academics have been trying to get to the bottom of.
Simon Johnson won the Nobel Prize for Economics with two colleagues in twenty twenty four for work on how nations became prosperous.
He's an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
There are more jobs than ever which would suggest that all of these new technologies that have been introduced so far have led to more work, not less work.
And so you're splitting history up in into two sections in a way.
There's technology pre computers, where we ended up with more work and often better paid work.
But now in the computerized era you're saying new work tends to be less good.
The new job
Is there a historical analogue to artificial intelligence?
on the horizon.
Nobel economics laureate Simon Johnson.
You're listening to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.
I'm Rob Young asking what history tells us about whether artificial intelligence will destroy our jobs or just change them.
Well, official data in the United States shows that eighteen occupations regarded as exposed to AI saw a drop in employment of zero point two percent in the year to May last year.
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