
Why AI Will Not Abolish Work
Jan 21, 2020 calls for a rethink of what counts as economically valuable activity as new technologies displace paid labor.
Andrea Komlosy is Professor at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna and the author of Work: The Last 1,000 Years.
Jan 21, 2020 calls for a rethink of what counts as economically valuable activity as new technologies displace paid labor.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.