Name: 【TED】Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman: How do we find dignity at work? (How do we find dignity at work? | Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman)
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Bryn Freedman: You're a guy whose company funds these AI programs and invests.

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So why should we trust you to not have a bias

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and tell us something really useful for the rest of us

And when you wake up in the morning and you read the newspaper

and it says, "The robots are coming, they may take all our jobs,"

as a start-up investor focused on the future of work,

artificial intelligence should be a focus for us.

So I woke up one morning and read that and said,

"Oh, my gosh, they're talking about me. That's me who's doing that."

then maybe not only will the start-ups in which we invest struggle

because there won't be people to have jobs

to pay for the things that they make and buy them,

but our economy and society might struggle, too.

And look, I should be the guy who sits here and tells you,

"Everything is going to be fine. It's all going to work out great.

Hey, when they introduced the ATM machine,

years later, there's more tellers in banks."

And yet, when I looked at it, I thought, "This is going to accelerate.

And if it does accelerate, there's a chance the center doesn't hold."

But I figured somebody must know the answer to this;

And I read all the books, and I went to the conferences,

and at one point, we counted more than 100 efforts to study the future of work.

because I'd hear the same back-and-forth over and over again:

"Oh, don't worry about that, they've always said that and it turns out OK."

"Well, it's really about the meaning of your job, anyway."

And then everybody would shrug and go off and have a drink.

And it felt like there was this Kabuki theater of this discussion,

And many of the people that I knew and worked with in the technology world

the policy makers were not speaking to them.

And so we partnered with a nonpartisan think tank NGO called New America

And we brought together a group of people,

including an AI czar at a technology company

literally, all in the same room; it was occasionally awkward --

to try to figure out what is it that will happen here.

It was: What is the effect of technology on work going to be?

because we wanted to look out far enough that there could be real change,

but soon enough that we weren't talking about teleportation or anything like that.

and I think every year we're reminded of this in the world --

that predicting what's going to happen is hard.

So instead of predicting, there are other things you can do.

You can try to imagine alternate possible futures,

and we imagined cases where no job is safe.

We imagined cases where every job is safe.

And we imagined every distinct possibility we could.

And the result, which really surprised us,

was when you think through those futures and you think what should we do,

the answers about what we should do actually turn out to be the same,

And the irony of looking out 10 to 20 years into the future is,

you realize that the things we want to act on

are actually already happening right now.

The automation is right now, the future is right now.

BF: So what does that mean, and what does that tell us?

If the future is now, what is it that we should be doing,

RB: We have to understand the problem first.

And so the data are that as the economy becomes more productive

and individual workers become more productive,

If you look at the proportion of prime working-age men,

we have three times as many men not working.

I sat down with a group of Walmart workers and said,

"What do you think about this cashier, this futuristic self-checkout thing?"

They said, "That's nice, but have you heard about the cash recycler?

That's a machine that's being installed right now,

and is eliminating two jobs at every Walmart right now."

And so we just thought, "Geez. We don't understand the problem."

And so we looked at the voices that were the ones that were excluded,

which is all of the people affected by this change.

sort of "automation and its discontents."

And I've spent the last couple of years doing that.

I've been to Flint, Michigan, and Youngstown, Ohio,

talking about entrepreneurs, trying to make it work

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