"A World Without Work?"

by Benanav, A (2020)

Abstract

Advanced industrial robotics, self-driving cars and trucks, and intelligent cancer-screening machines presage a world of ease, but they also make us uneasy. After all, what would human beings do in a largely automated future? Would we be able to adapt our institutions to realize the dream of human freedom that a new age of intelligent machines might make possible? Or would that dream turn out to be a nightmare? The new automation discourse asks just these sorts of questions and arrives at a provocative conclusion: mass technological unemployment is coming, and it must be managed by the provision of universal basic income, since large sections of the population will lose access to the wages they need to live. Do the automation theorists have this story right?

Keywords

Automation, Technology, Technological Unemployment, Automation Theory, Freedom

Themes

Future of Work, Automation

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• https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765744/summary?casa_token=RDtAQ7W9ujoAAAAA:WrDmqe4vQ6Nf7FIwqAyJmkrIfKprLNwoZI7Hg2gH9ApEGHuKTqHZox_0qNmtGG6GzKIxD7s7
• https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765744/pdf?casa_token=4J3nzkAwSAUAAAAA:kuPiAjntXVTxFu7wPRsIAXyGiXFyoTnqokzHvTzb3xQ27TaJKjM6W2Icar2kM8-J4UdL1Wn0

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