Sarah O'Connor

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261 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · LIVE: We Are Not Machines - with Sarah O'Connor · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, I think...

People do and are and will direct and determine this next progression of technological change because that's what's always happened.

I mean, some people obviously have more power than others, particularly in terms of like what kind of working conditions they may or may not have to accept.

But, you know, everyone that I interviewed in my book

is responding to what's happening and, you know, whether that is that they are going on strike or forming a union or whether it's that they are changing their profession or figuring out some new way of doing what they do in a different way.

Also as consumers, you know, a lot of the questions we've been talking about is like, well, what will the market accept?

We are the market, you know, so it's kind of up to us to decide whether we

like AI music or real music.

You are the market.

That's great.

How to compliment an economist.

So this is something that a lot of the translators that I interviewed brought up.

I think because they're linguists, they have like an ear for language and how it's changing.

But a number of them said to me independently that they had noticed that the sorts of language that we are using is becoming narrower and flatter and more homogenous.

And I wonder if that is partly because...

We are using ChatGPT more to write our LinkedIn posts and our emails.

And maybe that even seeps into the way that we communicate with one another.

So I think there are certain risks there.

But also, you know, I think large language models do clearly have the capacity to do that thing that we talked about at the start, which is like take away some of the boring stuff.

And I think there are plenty of examples of people doing that.

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