
Automation and the Future of Work - Aaron Benavav, Verso Books (2020) & The AI Economy - Roger Bootle, John Murray Press (2019)
These books review a singular feature of modern economies – workers are competing with ever more advanced machines. Both authors also question the idea that technological unemployment can be addressed by a Universal Basic Income (UBI).
The advent of Chat GPT sparked a media frenzy around two inter-related questions – does artificial