AI Won’t Steal Your Job, But It’ll Sure Make It Suck

We can spy a dismal pattern emerging in the future of work

Clive Thompson
OneZero
Published in
8 min readSep 24, 2021

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“Winter snow storm” by superkar

We often worry that AI and automation will take our jobs — that software will do work so efficiently and cheaply that corporations will chuck their humans aside. That certainly can happen; bank tellers are in steep decline, to pick just one example.

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Clive Thompson
OneZero

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net