The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers
The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers
Section titled “The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers”
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Clive Thompson
- Full Title: The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://onezero.medium.com/the-miserable-lives-of-cyborg-truck-drivers-849b6118b754
Highlights
Section titled “Highlights”- “While we often think of automation and A.I. as developments that will eventually replace workers,” Kaiser-Schatzlein writes, “those tools are already in heavy use in the workplace. And they haven’t replaced workers; they’ve simply been brought in to manage declining working conditions.”
- So here again is the trend: Automation and AI don’t reduce the number of jobs in an industry. In fact, there are more jobs than ever. But they’re crappier jobs, with humans run ragged to keep pace with ruthlessly optimized high-tech systems.