About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and the stock market, featuring guest Cory Doctorow.

Through stealing your job or simply tanking the stock market—whichever comes first—the rise of artificial intelligence (companies) is a very futuristic sounding problem. It may have some very old-fashioned sounding solutions however. Guest: Cory Doctorow , sci-fi author, journalist, blogger and author of “ The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. ” Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Rob Gunther, Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort. Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD. Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Cory Doctorow

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• job displacement
• stock market
• technology solutions
• sci-fi
• journalism

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• Cory Doctorow
• job displacement
• stock market
• technology
• sci-fi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Slate Podcasts

Books & works: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI

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