2025-02-19
1 小时 28 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Welcome everybody to tonight's hybrid event, what a pleasure.
It's hosted tonight by the Department of Media and Communications here at LSE and
as you know we're going to hear a lecture,
The Last Human Job, AI Depersonalization and the Industrial Clock.
My name is Sonia Livingstone,
I'm a Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Digital Features for Children Centre at the Department of Media and Communications at LSE and I'm very pleased to welcome here Professor Alison Pugh to our online audience and to our audience here.
Alison Pugh is a Professor of Sociology at John Hopkins University and her research focuses on how meaningful emotional connections between people are shaped by rationalization,
precariousness and inequalities of race, gender and class.
And she's going to be talking today about her fourth book,
The Last Human Job, the work of connecting in a disconnected world.
And it's based on a federally funded study of the standardization of work that relies on relationship.
Reviews describe The Last Human Job as, quote, impeccably researched and beautifully written, which I can confirm.
And as a timely and urgent argument about preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation,
something I think that's very much on our minds at the moment.
We're surrounded by public fears that AI will take over our jobs.
We are witnessing the struggle of governments to regulate AI for the public good.
And we are witnessing the renewed energy of the industry yet again to move fast and break things.
And it's striking