Carl Benedikt Frey: The Technology Trap | Talks at Google
Carl Benedikt Frey joined us in London to talk about his book The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation, and what history teaches us about how we might deal with the upcoming shift in working habits caused by the age of artificial intelligence.
* About the book *
From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating for large swaths of the population. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends, Frey documents, broadly mirror those in our current age of automation, which began with the Computer Revolution.
Just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. But Frey argues that this depends on how the short term is managed. In the nineteenth century, workers violently expressed their concerns over machines taking their jobs. The Luddite uprisings joined a long wave of machinery riots that swept across Europe and China. Today’s despairing middle class has not resorted to physical force, but their frustration has led to rising populism and the increasing fragmentation of society. As middle-class jobs continue to come under pressure, there’s no assurance that positive attitudes to technology will persist.
The Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. The Technology Trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.
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Drone Warriors and the #NoDAPL Movement
This panel will explore how the Drone Warriors' appropriation of military-turn-commercial technology provided a vital tool for the dissemination of Indigenous forms of aesthetic protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
00:00:15 - 00:25:15 Jennifer Weston, Citizen, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and Immersion School Developer & Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Language Department Director, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
00:25:33 - 00:49:00 Lisa Parks, Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Fred Stanback, in partnership with his wife Alice, is one of North Carolina’s leading supporters of conservation initiatives. They fund the Nicholas School of the Environment’s Stanback Internship Program. Since the program’s inception in 1996, over 1,300 undergraduate and graduate students have benefited. The Stanback Internship Program has grown into a thriving partnership between Duke and scores of organizations throughout the country.
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