AI and the Welfare State: What Happens When the Intergenerational Contract Breaks?

About this episode

Cat and Graça discuss the impact of AI on the intergenerational contracts that welfare states rely on.

Your parents paid for your grandparents' retirement. You're paying for your parents'. But will your kids be paying for yours? In this episode, Cat and Graça examine a structural disconnect: while tech companies plan infrastructure investments for AI deployment, there's minimal parallel discussion about how AI-driven labor market changes will affect the intergenerational contracts that welfare states depend on. The choice we make now is between anticipating structural shifts or hoping the next...

People in this episode

Host: Cat

Guest: Graça

Topics covered

• AI
• welfare state
• intergenerational contract
• labor market changes
• technology investment

Keywords

• AI
• welfare state
• intergenerational contract
• labor market
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI Academy

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