The question people always ask me is, is AI going to cause huge unemployment?
It's the same question I was asked during the microelectronic revolution,
the internet revolution, if you want to call it that, you know,
we've been through all of these huge technological changes and somehow in the popular imagination,
there's always a sort of fear that these technologies are going to cause massive unemployment and somehow we don't learn from history.
Welcome to LSE IQ,
the podcast where we ask social scientists and other experts to answer one intelligent question.
I'm Sophie Mallett from LSE's research team, and in this episode I ask, will AI free us from work?
But this month, we're doing IQ a little differently, and I'll explain why.
Earlier this year in the depths of winter on an incredibly rainy, wet, dark, and very London day,
I sat down with Judy Wiseman, who we heard from at the start of the episode.
She is currently LSE's Meredith Professor of Sociology and a leading voice on technology and work.
I was there to ask her the question, is AI really taking our jobs?
For an incredible video we worked on this year and more about how you can watch that later.
But we ended up speaking about so much more.
Judy gave me a rare look behind the scenes at how tech pictures in Silicon Valley actually go down.
She revealed what really saves people time.
Spoiler alert, it's not tech.
And she told me about how a senior Apple executive boasted to her about a tech feature that totally misses the point.
And you might be using it every day, because I know I do.