There’s a danger to focusing primarily on CEO statements about AI adoption in the workplace, warns Brian Merchant, a journalist-in-residence at the AI Now Institute, an AI policy and research institute.
“There’s a wide gulf between the prognostications of tech company CEOs and what’s actually happening on the ground,” he says. Merchant in 2023 published Blood in the Machine, a book about how the historical Luddites resisted automation during the industrial revolution. In his substack newsletter by the same name, Merchant has written about how AI implementation is now reshaping work.
To better understand workers’ perspectives on how AI is changing jobs, we spoke with Merchant. Here are excerpts from our conversation, edited for length and clarity:
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