Money Talks: The AI Job Apocalypse is Avoidable

About this episode

MIT professor Daron Acemoglu discusses how to avoid the AI job apocalypse and improve workers' lives through pro-worker technologies.

In this Money Talks: MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins Emily Peck to explain his research into pro-worker technologies and how we can not only avoid the AI job apocalypse but also improve workers' lives by shifting the goal of AI from automation to collaboration.  Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Emily Peck

Guest: Daron Acemoglu

Topics covered

• AI job apocalypse
• pro-worker technologies
• automation
• collaboration
• workers' lives
• research

Keywords

• AI
• job market
• automation
• collaboration
• Daron Acemoglu
• workers' rights
• technology

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Organizations: MIT, Slate Podcasts, Slate Money, Acast

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