Zershaaneh Qureshi
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853 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Sep
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Why wouldn't that happen?
You have to shout even louder to make up for it.
Yeah.
So I think I'm coming around to the idea that not necessarily...
everybody is unemployed and also not necessarily in the immediate term, there's this like massive inequality.
But I think something else that's come up for me here is when you're talking about the jobs that do remain for people, I wonder if there is some tension here now between
this and your other advice about what kind of work people should be doing to have the most positive impact on the world.
So it seems like from an impact perspective, you have recommended a variety of things, but some large category of them are like being researchers and engineers who are trying to make AI safer for humanity.
But then from the perspective of
job security and making sure you still have a wage in the future like aren't aren't those sorts of research and engineering jobs and things like exactly the kinds of things that get automated first and instead shouldn't people if they kind of value themselves kind of selfishly shouldn't they be becoming sort of blue collar workers and nurses that you've described and these kinds of things
then we'll worry about it later.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
We've talked quite a lot about what kinds of jobs might be automated and what the dynamics of that looks like.
But my understanding is that in the book, that's not the only component people should be interested in when it comes to what jobs or what skills are likely to be valuable in the future, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, so a big part of this is going to have to be flexibility, right?
With like, this is what you do for now, but like, I guess people need to kind of stay on the pulse of what's happening and like work out when to pivot.
Which is kind of tough.
So I think one pessimistic response I might have as a listener at this point is like, if I do think that there's a good chance of very advanced AI systems coming very soon and that causing the world to change really quickly and posing loads of really severe existential scale threats, as well as coming with a chance that at some point,
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