Who's afraid of the AI job-snatchers?
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Hello, I'm Rob Young. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Today will artificial intelligence take our jobs. We look at the history of technological innovations and employment and compare them to what's happening today.
What they're asking or offering to do there is to replace human cognition with an algorithm. The various forms of mechanization we had before were either replacing physical labor or complementing human cognition.
We'll assess the impact of AI on the job market right now and ask whether we would rather deal with a bot or a person.
We don't know yet quite how people will react to a world in which AI can in theory provide all these things, but I think time will prove that for most people, for most things, they do still value that human touch.
That's all on Business Daily from the BBC. Artificial intelligence is already writing computer code, drafting legal documents and answering customer service questions. Some of the biggest names in tech say that AI will revolutionize how we work. There seems to be a general fear the technology could make huge swathes of workers redundant. The Pope said recently the pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs.
Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward.
Even those responsible for artificial intelligence are concerned. Jeffrey Hinton is often
called the godfather of AI. The large companies are investing huge amounts of money in it. They have to replace jobs to make that money back. That's where the big money is, in selling companies things that will replace workers. So our fears for the future.
culture of work justified or is this just the latest version of a panic humans have been having for centuries? I want to look back at what history can tell us about big technological leaps. And uh where better to look at that than the Science Museum here in central London which has exhibits such as the first television set, the first computer, and even a capsule that's been around the moon. I'm here to meet one of the curators, Laura Joy Peters.
It's a very, very rusty old tube. It's in fact an Edison tube. It's an electricity cable, probably from the first public supply of electricity anywhere in the world. So it changed how people worked and it meant that we could do work later in the day or we could do work at night. And obviously there are parts of the world where electricity and that lighting uh isn't as widespread, but it does change the way we work because we're not tied to the rhythms of the the sun, the moon and stars. But actually we could have twenty four hour work.
Well we've now moved to a different part of the Science Museum where there is a satellite.
What does Rob Young say about the fear of AI taking our jobs?
Laura Joy. Tell me about this.
So we are standing underneath a model of a GPS satellite. GPS is an American global positioning system.
It's much bigger than I thought it would be. It's probably the length of a big London bus.
It is, it's ginormous, it's a gold box, it's got these two huge wings. GPS is really interesting to me because GPS has absolutely transformed how we move around the world in one generation. So previously, you know, my parents were very good at using maps and they would use a map to plan their route uh when they're driving. Uh automobiles also are really interesting general purpose technology. In one generation that skill of using maps has been lost because we absolutely just rely on GPS now.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:00
2
What does Rob Young say about the fear of AI taking our jobs?
4:00–15:15
3
How does history’s big technological leaps (electricity, railways) inform today’s AI debate?
15:15–17:23
4
What can the Science Museum’s exhibits (early TV, computers, GPS) teach us about tech‑driven work change?
17:23–19:10
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