The future of work: is your job safe?

The world of work will be radically different in the future. From hyper-surveillance of staff to digital nomadism to robots taking jobs-how, where and why we work is changing beyond all recognition. Film supported by Mishcon de Reya
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This is the workforce of the future. Technology is transforming the world of work beyond all recognition creating groundbreaking opportunities. But it's also eroding the rights of workers. Some even fear a dystopian jobless future. But are these anxieties overblown? How we react to this brave new world of work today will shape societies for generations to come.
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[@evaristegalois6282]

*_Can’t worry about losing your job if you’re unemployed_*

[@The_Revolutionist]

@boson96 Stfu you lazy bitch on Welfare! 🖕

[@V3ritas1989]

hahaha, thank you! I laughed hard!

[@spaceoutmisfit1738]

i wish but i like to have money on me

[@LoveUnityUnderGod]

only unemployed "INTP" have time to watch this shit

[@maxten]

sure you will worry when you run out of money, unless you're going for welfare(good luck then with your self esteem).

[@SampaJasli]

this was my favourite episode of black mirror

[@Kim-Yo-jong]

Same I'm glad this isn't really happening.

[@LilRedRasta]

episode?

[@maxpayne930]

Is this the next season?

[@redccat_]

r/woooosh?

[@ulizez89]

@@maxpayne930 Nahhhhh, the season after this one was the lazy one with the weird virus epidemic where the whole planet reacted like idiots (very unrealistic imo). We need to go back to the older seasons moods with all the automation and climate change and the authoritative regimes in the rise.

[@r3dp1ll]

well made thank you. This company ironically named "Humanyse" is frightening

[@gordontang8187]

As much as War is Peace

[@CalebMcFarland]

Becoming Vincent Exactly what I was going to say. If you’re gonna collect data, which it sounds like they’re collecting too much data almost like their emails and speaking to others, they should at least make it open where the team gets more control over how the data is collected and used. Some data might be beneficial in a work environment but they’re like tracking how much they breathe nearly. That sort of micro management makes them seem like a ever watching overlord prepared to punish wrong doers. There should be some buffer between management and employee and they shouldn’t be all powerful without the team playing a part in that somehow and benefit from it at the very least.

[@nicksonredfield3925]

With such pretty face as yours, never worry about losing your job

[@bradleyirwin9545]

The realistic name for that company should be called "De-humanyse"

[@madimakes]

How they think what they’re doing is not evil is perplexing

[@aneil84]

Founders of Humanyse watch Black Mirror as a how-to guide

[@lightcry95]

Now we know about it. It's only a matter of time until more and more people suggest to implement it in their organisations.

[@unbeattable]

Absolutely horrifying

[@891delta]

It was creepy watching them talk like it was a great idea.

[@lyvsal9774]

@@891delta they destroy the privacy of workers.

[@moviladaniel6010]

They all look so lost...

[@LikeItDeep]

Me: "Doctor, I am suffering from a Wave of Automation Anxiety". Doctor: "I'm sorry. My program does not acknowledge that such a condition exists."

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

Plot twist, the doctor is a robot.

[@BeaverChainsaw]

@@TheTariqibnziyad that's.... actually not far off, robots are even proving to be better than doctors at meticulous operations

[@kelvinmattos9703]

Automation is wonderful, humans must learn how to use its potential to improve our lives

[@toddkes5890]

"You must act the right questions"

[@anuoluwapooshikoya9155]

😂🤣🤣🤣

[@puffinjuice]

Humanyze, poor choice of name for a company that dehumanises

[@lyvsal9774]

excuse for companies to control 100% the workers with no privacy.

[@LaLa-uz7jr]

Perfect point and my opinion as well! :)

[@urbanwoodworking233]

It's a double-edged sword we have to use to understand and then control. 99% of laws are reactive.

[@BaneTrogdor]

ABSOLUTELY !

[@issy0613]

Humanyse = Human Eyes... Big Brother is watching 👀😂

[@kevinmarten]

We read news in the media that doom and gloom is coming and we just accept it, doom and gloom doesn’t always have to be coming, I’ve read numerous success stories of people that are pulling off tremendous gains of up to $250K within weeks in this crazy market and I just want to learn how to achieve such figures.

[@Walter_hill_]

With this crash I'll say it wont be too easy to pick the right stock, Jim Cramer said there are still huge opportunities despite the crash, and I overheard someone talk about making $250k from about $110k since the crash. How do I make these kind of returns Nate?

[@Oly_laura]

There are actually a lot of ways to make high yields in a crisis, but such trades are best done under the supervision of Financial advisor.

[@lipglosskitten2610]

Thats true, I've been getting assisted by a coach for almost a year now, I started out with less than $120K and I'm just $19,000 short of half a million in profit.

[@Walter_hill_]

@@lipglosskitten2610 Thats quite Impressive! can you share more info?

[@Walter_hill_]

thanks for sharing this, I googled the lady you mentioned and after going through her resume, I can tell she's a pro. I wrote her and I'm waiting on her reply.

[@jip230]

Humanyse? More like Dehumanize.

[@michaelayeni177]

It's so ironic.

[@LoveUnityUnderGod]

define what is "humanizisation". there has been never human in the firstplace, no nature, we are nature, IA is a process born from the mind of human, human mind is a product of nature. hence we keep doing what nature made us for

[@Omilliyo]

rlp230 thinks it’s a play chimpanzee. Ai will become the new humans

[@agugyin]

Mass suicide...

[@CalebMcFarland]

I’m glad other people saw some issue with the Humanyze company. If you’re gonna collect data, which it sounds like they’re collecting too much data almost like their emails and speaking to others, they should at least make it open where the team gets more control over how the data is collected and used. Some data might be beneficial in a work environment but they’re like tracking how much they breathe nearly. That sort of micro management makes them seem like a ever watching overlord prepared to punish wrong doers. There should be some buffer between management and employee and they shouldn’t be all powerful without the team playing a part in that somehow and benefit from it at the very least. I’m all for progress and I don’t even think robots are this big dooms day thing but it should be done right and that level of micro management surveillance with this tiny overload group I think might be overstepping. If you’re gonna monitor that much it should be a group thing more where everyone benefits and has a say and can also opt out of some things. They’re employees not just assets that have to be fixed if they aren’t functioning the way you want.

[@cmpremlap]

Although incredible, it seems Humanyze technology is compiling worker information in order to micro-manage human behavior… That would feel very inhuman for me. This is why unions are so critical to worker’s rights. A union’s lobbying power provides individual workers a collective voice. The grocery company that integrates humans with robots is an incredible example of how to make the best of this upcoming technology.

[@amandawei6743]

It looks much like an invisible prison for me if I am wearing such surveillance techonology in a company😂@@cmpremlap

[@cmpremlap]

@@amandawei6743 agreed

[@bcase5328]

This is just a business equivalent to China's model citizen web project.

[@jamenhej5022]

I have no idea why the Economist get so many negative bots commenting. Because the content is great!

[@danielekirylo]

The ultimate ideal company, is one that has 1 person, the rich owner, with 1 button and the rest are robots. Don't forget that robots will produce and repair other robots. So how is that creating more jobs???

[@jonatand2045]

Because humans are still required for many tasks, your scenario is probably decades away.

[@binozia-old-2031]

But everyone else has free time to spend with their families and go on vacation

[@guardianoffire8814]

@@binozia-old-2031 So in the future the new definition of unemployed will mean spending time with family and going on vacations.

[@binozia-old-2031]

Guardian of Fire yeah pretty much though the people that do choose to work will have more material objects (big house, nice cars so on)

[@GrowBagUK]

Everyone will have to become an entrepreneur.

[@joaquinyanizlascurain609]

Thanks for sharing this video again. Lots of changes will come soon for everybody....Not only at work

[@karlpilkington997]

There will be pushes to make you more and more dependent on the system. Resist those pushes at every opportunity you can and reverse your trajectory by increasing self sufficiency

[@ZeInfidel]

We've seen this before with containerisation; Will jobs be lost? Yes How many? Most Will jobs be made? Far less then what is lost Can those who lose the jobs do the new jobs? No. WIll any govt prepare for this? Not a chance.

[@rock3tcatU233]

So we should have never accepted container based shipping and continue to use an outdated system which inhibits trade, all for the sake of protecting a couple of dock workers... I'll pass.

[@snowhole2625]

ZeInfidel Quit being edgy. You talk and complain to show how ‘aware’ you are but never give a solution because you’re a pretentious dickhead. The fact is this: there is no solution within a capitalist framework.

[@ZeInfidel]

@@rock3tcatU233 I'm going to go ahead and assume you have no idea how many jobs were lost in the first wave of automation otherwise you would be at least a bit concerned over the massive fucking social and economic instability it causes. But hey, not like welfare benefits are a burden on the tax payer either....🙄

[@ZeInfidel]

@@snowhole2625 lmao, talk about being some triggered angry Snowflake. How are facts 'edgy'? O right, soyboys don't do facts do they.

[@hindugoat2302]

@meder this time its different kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYHUXoZrapyLh7c

[@networktibet]

Bring it on. There is always room for innovation that create opportunities. We will catch up with the technology. M quite optimistic🤶

[@BiancaAguglia]

@Mobile Upload That's the attitude. 😁 I agree with you: all challenges create opportunities. I don't think we have to catch up with technology though. We just have to get better at using it. For example, you don't say, "I want to be as fast as a car." Or, "I want to fly as high as an airplane." Instead, we figure out ways to drive cars faster, better, and with less fuel. Or fly planes faster, better, and will less fuel. 😊 Same thing with AI and other booming technologies like AR, VR, blockchain and so on. The idea is not to try to be as good as tools are, but to be better humans because we're using them.

[@networktibet]

@@BiancaAguglia Thank you. Actually what i meant is that our education system and career perspective will change accordingly.

[@BiancaAguglia]

@@networktibet You're right. It's been like this with any major technology: first, it is hyped up by some of the early adopters. Then, the rest of the world hears about it and feels unsure or intimidated. Finally, we educate ourselves, figure out it's nothing more than another tool, and stop panicking until the next major technological breakthrough. 😁

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

If I had a real job I wouldn't have time to watch videos like this

[@jamohv1516]

Overly optimistic. They don’t go into the actual facts of robotics replacing the vast amount of jobs and the repercussions that will follow.

[@891delta]

Having free time and not having to work?

[@LoveUnityUnderGod]

they forget the intrinsic conquence. hoo you created job, but didn't you see that the half others part of the pyramid crumbled

[@LoveUnityUnderGod]

@@891delta futur.

[@harunrazak7764]

@@891delta What about if you enjoy your job?

[@williammaina7273]

UBI would defeat the purpose of automation, since the companies, which wanted to increase revenue by automation, would have that revenue taken away as taxation to support the welfare state in addition to the costs of running the AI, which will be more of a subscription SaaS with endless updates than a one-time buy.

[@generalfacts6238]

a very eye opening video on the future of jobs. It would be an opportunity for some and a threat for many.

[@cryptoslice7459]

those tracking badges should be illegal , no way will i wear one of them id be screwed lol

[@ij636]

I can't believe that people would work for a company like that. We're heading towards some scary times. The look on that little shit who invented those badges. This will be the end of capitalism. You will have no need for money no need to get an education.

[@dianechristoper1287]

You keep carrying your phone bud

[@julesk764]

Lunch time is cancelled

[@modernmodern7070]

I’m an ex engineer and I graduated with honors and I couldn’t hold jobs because of idiocies embedded at work places; I’m jobless since more than a year now and I’m scared, but I wish the same to all!!!!! Hope that you get what you deserve!!!!!!

[@DavidVonR]

You couldn't find a job with your engineering degree?

[@modernmodern7070]

Racism, especially against people like me!🎯

[@yl508]

@@modernmodern7070 you sure it's not your attitude 😏

[@aesma2522]

Couple saying their life is sustainable. Also, couple taking dozens of long haul flights every year.

[@dianechristoper1287]

What people do < go with the work .. happened for centuries

[@Randomguy-wd5lw]

Half of the video talk about globalisation not automation.

[@manlike_xzy]

“Our little helpers” that sent shivers.

[@LikeItDeep]

I wonder how long it will be before we are all compulsorily microchipped? It will be sold to us as a good thing and that anyone who refuses must be deranged or up to no good.

[@magdap28]

2020 and the covid global vaccination?

[@TheAjRae]

Germans won’t agree to it. They value their privacy VERY highly

[@rodrigocostaadv]

Where can I find this researchs that sugests AI and machins can create as many job as they displace? I'm really interested in this issue. If anyone could help me, I'll appreciate a lot!

[@fayazfaizal1365]

Robots: i will take your job by 2040. Corona: am i a joke to you?? i took your job in 2020 !

[@dream.machine]

😂😂 Exactly, although the Robots take them by 2030-33

[@fernandoroberts3591]

😂😂

[@Zimboprenuer]

Corona has just speeded the takeover

[@anak5880]

@@Zimboprenuer exactly, there's even more unemployment ☠

[@irwinsaltzman979]

Working for a company as a full time employee is wonderful. Get vacations, have health care, know each day , week and month where you will get a paycheck. Companies understand that contract employees save a bunch of money, can be hired as required etc.

[@steverothmans5908]

how can this possibly be legal? spying on employees like they are animals... i personally refuse to work in such an environment where im being spied on and monitored constantly, its inhumane! as a worker i want to sell my work and my knowledge, but my privacy and dignity are not for sale!

[@jdantes7912]

Amazing to see that this was posted pre COVID & how the first topic/norm of remote work panned out (exponentially). Wow.

[@warfamine9069]

Its all part of game

[@quantifycrypto3898]

Who's watching now in August 2020, this must of increased massively since the coronavirus

[@aleksamarinkovic355]

has me wondering why isn't automation booming right now, seems like time is more convenient then ever.

[@meangreen6044]

Hello I’m calling in from 2024! It’s happening

[@hanhan2360]

High Quality. Thank you

[@worldcitezen6265]

Really , there will be great challenges in the future, basically in economies of countries . The coming digital age has plenty of advantages , in the same time has some disadvantages , clearly creation and raising of unemployment rate.

[@mateuszbieniek4791]

I completely disagree with the economist on the points made. And the economist is not exactly consistent here either. 1) The ocado example is a bad example which does not take into account the growing market in the field. First of all, they are far from automated yet, so that is a big automation area. Second of all, it is a market that in the long term will take some jobs away from supermarkets. Finally, the hope there is that some kind of robotics systems will be capable of fully automating the entire process, getting rid of the humans. This is what happened in the car factories: the automation is almost complete. You could similarly cherry pick the example of addidas factory coming back to germany because they fully automated the shoe making process, and give the impression that automation kills all jobs. 2) The statement that the automation creates jobs is going in the face of the eroding job market, which is discussed in the beginning of the video. The beginning of the video shows that people work in the gig economy: meaning that they have no better alternatives. Meaning that the job market increasingly wants only the engineers etc who will further automate processes. Meaning that the automation hits a lot of people. If so much automation is happening, and thus so many more jobs are being created, why is there so much struggle? Why is there so much shortages and austerity? 3) Recently the economist said that the one job that sees a steady growth is the cleaning services, and services of that type in general. So once we automate most of it, we will all be cleaners. Hyperbole. 4) The automation is only beginning, and that is because the field of artificial intelligence is only exploding now. Ocado is only a toy project to a full automation where drones/SDCs drive the shopping after picking them up from the warehouse where robots prepare the packages. Side points: I distinctly remember that there was a huge stanford report in 2007/8 about how we are finally seeing automation killing more jobs than creating them. Sure, maybe we can all work in the advertisement trying to sell products to each other. After that we started seeing zero/one-hour contracts across the western countries and erosion of labour rights. I would love to see that group and some systematic analysis of the different economic stances on this. Historically, the economist seems to be to be skewed towards automation, shouting the same message, "it creates jobs". Like the uber CEOs saying "fully automating uber will only mean more work for the uber drivers" ...

[@MrIgorbuller]

Who's watching this in 2020? I wonder how much will change after Covid-19. Will it accelerate towards this future? Or... will it be completely different from what we could of imagine? 2020 the year that changed the course of humanity.

[@erwintan4746]

i applied to become remote customer service officer for chinese video game company, i am about to lose my current job entirely in few months. Wish us all luck and miracle in this hard times :)

[@aleksamarinkovic355]

I wonder that too, seems like time is right for this to kick in, I mean I'm pretty sure that at least retail workers could be replaiced to some extent through robotics but I'm not seeing much change. I mean I am from Serbia so its not gonna happen here so let me know.

[@El.Duder-ino]

Excellent video report, very well analyzed👍 I would just add: all is a matter of degree😉

[@modeforjoe]

11:57 This segment is concerning for a much deeper reason. In the near future, you could use a more advanced version of this highly detailed employee monitoring system to train AI/machine learning to eventually replace some of the monitored employee... and they wouldn't even realize it until the day they are let go!

[@thibautbarguil]

Amazon already does exactly that. Workers fired by AI.

[@rkosingh4514]

Andrew Yang is the man of the hour

[@iamabean]

Asides from giving out 1k a month he does not have any plans .

[@jmunday7811]

@@iamabean have you read his plans?

[@iamabean]

@@jmunday7811 i read about him more than 90% percent of you. You should go and watch his conversation on Joe Rogan podcast. I kind of liked him bu after watching this podcast i realized he was a,moron . Go and watch it

[@andrewfares1700]

@an read his policies on his website, he is the best policy one

[@iamabean]

@@andrewfares1700 i read more than 90% of u and his policies contradict themselves all over the freaking places. I liked his ideas at first but the more he talked the more non sense he sounds , especially the UBI. He doesnt have any plan to create jobs for the displaced workers . He also admitted that retraining these workers doesnt work . So with UBI these people can sit there and live on UBI till they die? Dont tell me UBI will " trickle up" economy. Come on the majority of American manual workers are putting out of jobs , living on a new welfare called UBI 12k a year, only a fraction of what they earned previously. If you have a family of 4 , with 2 children below 18 , each person can only live on 500 a month. How on earth it can increase demand and create jobs.

[@kangchixx1778]

Andrew Yang 2020!!!!

[@GeorgeChuy]

Maybe automation could create, as suggested by the video, as many jobs as it has replaced. But in general, most of these new jobs would be mechanic and repetitive, unlike the holistic jobs they would wipe out. It is simply crazy to monitor laborers or workers with surveillance. And the big data would tell the supervisor who is less efficient by a thin margin and lose his job.

[@philanimthombeni7887]

Everyone must learn to be an investor

[@gypsyspears]

Growing businesses ALWAYS create jobs, automation or not. Saying that the use of robots created Occado jobs is misleading. It is not in any way sure that we will have as many jobs as before. Or if the workforce will be able to perform them without support for skill changes.

[@matthewmelange]

Day after this was posted, Tesla reduces 7% of their workforce

[@XanderShiller]

*Help wanted* ( how do I find help with learning about social media or producing a podcast etc is there a website?)

[@teeI0ck]

📹 this video is very well explained, helpful, interesting and insightful. 💡 Muito obrigado for sharing 🤝

[@newrunrocks2656]

Still feeling like technology and automation is progressing really really slow.

[@BiancaAguglia]

You must be from the future then. 😁

[@newrunrocks2656]

Bianca A. - There's art to data science I'm one hour in the future from your comment.

[@binozia-old-2031]

Think again huge strides have been made in the last 5 years

[@BiancaAguglia]

@@newrunrocks2656 That explains your comment then. 😁

[@lesliewarren6481]

We humans will be outdated once the robots learn enough. What happens to older people that are not technically inclined?

[@S2Tubes]

By the time AI advances to that point, and today's middle aged people become old, they will have already grown up being tech savvy. The days of technically illiterate old people are coming to an end.

[@lesliewarren6481]

Blood Angel just because you can operate a cell phone doesn't make you a tech genius.

[@V3ritas1989]

@@lesliewarren6481 You may both be right because the little kids at grade 7 are already learning to program in class. While the majority who grew up with tech nowadays is not at all tech-savvy, the next gen will be. While on the other hand, Blood Angel is probably dramatically underestimating the time it will take for AI to advance to that level. No one is talking about multi-purpose AI but specialized small application or robots that do one or a chain of tasks very well, very fast. Because what is something like driving a car really? Its just a sequence of very many specialized single tasks.

[@jaywyse7150]

It's cat food time if they didn't save.

[@lesliewarren6481]

Self driving trucks, 3D printers that can build a house in 2 days including plumbing and electric. Just saying if your not an engineer or into tech doesn't seem like there will be much labour jobs left.

[@triggerhappy3352]

If we get to a point where 90% of stuff is made by robots, shouldn’t everything end up cost cheaper and a small amount of nomadic or traditional work would be able to pay our bills?

[@Brock742]

I think the problem lies with centralized control of the automation and AI. It’s less about what is possible and more about who has the power, and what they want.

[@D_Rogers]

Yes.. it should be cheap, but part time work and UBI may not be enough to support a retail economy.. On the upside, the boomer jobs need to be replaced by something and we don't have enough humans to do that...

[@ItsMikeArre]

50k in a 3rd world country is more then enough to live travel and enjoy life

[@v12ish40]

What makes you think they're making 50k?

[@lightcry95]

Depends. You might buy the cheaper products that don't cost much to produce locally, but foreign products stay expensive and only gets more expensive. It all depends on how much you can tolerate and what can you live without.

[@wayne980206]

@@lightcry95 yeah but to these African people who gets 2 dollars a week, that 50k is a small fortune

[@benjamin7114]

50K , in dollars ? Just 5 years of that in Kenya and you have a country home with land and a city apartment and SUV to move between them . That's a lot of money but sadly no one will earn that , the jobs are pushed down here because the labour is cheaper , just 5k a year and you have a university graduate .

[@abudabisas]

@@v12ish40 not making, with 50k im set for life comfortably, my yearly expences with good life re about 1k a year

[@AlmaVasquezjr]

Shout out to the yang Gang Love you guys

[@akotoolubayi1580]

Those badges are like some 1984 shit.

[@ulfhenarpolymathmilitant6258]

You need to re-watch in the middle of lockdowns and a scam/demic......you'll really see what is going on .

[@jaydani1996]

This company is great humannyze! Need more of them.

[@MGTOWPsyche]

No job is safe and no job should be safe! New jobs can only exist when people don't have to do the old jobs!

[@muzero2642]

Exacly right! Can’t understand why it is a problem that 45% of jobs dissapear. That means, on average, less work and cheaper goods for everyone.

[@The_Revolutionist]

@@muzero2642 Fuck your "average"! 🖕

[@jreganalyst9260]

Virgil Karlsson the issue is who profits? Not the average worker who can’t compete with machines. I understand the great amazing value added by machines that do such jobs. We humans won’t have to do them anymore. But the issue is many people will be left jobless with no way to earn income. What does that person then do with their life?

[@muzero2642]

Ryan Hawkos That’s why we have to have unions or governments (you choose) pushing for 6 hours days, longer leave etc. for equal pay. This will ”hurt” business owners but it has been done before.

[@jreganalyst9260]

Virgil Karlsson unions are basically non existent in America and if you think the government is here to help the poor, also known as those without any power, you’d be wrong. Basically I am saying the lower class is screwed bc A.I. and Automation is going to destroy lots of jobs and no one really knows how to fix this coming crisis.

[@meanderingbird286]

Work place monitoring ? Surely it's a micro managers dream come true and in a slightly sinister way, it's dehumanising.

[@avatarofwoo]

I like how the guy working at ocado said that there were more jobs there forgot about how they were displacing the jobs of their competitors.

[@ezecreative]

That's why Artismo Studio Share is around in Michigan... For these kinds of people. It's a dope place.

[@muhammadalam3886]

World leaders should be aware of this, otherwise it will be gone out of hand very soon. I think everyone should urge and work on this.

[@iabelanger]

This Humanyse company is absolutely inhumane and disgusting. I never thought I would see a company like that during my lifetime. So sad.

[@potatomatop9326]

Yes! Being a professional bum is safe.

[@lightcry95]

That's basic management for you. Conditioning employees

[@FagnerRibeiroBr]

That thought is dangerous. The technology can replace both blue collars and white collars. Truck drivers, waiters can be replaced by machines in the same way as lawyers, teachers and even doctors as well.

[@Kannen-hk1ls]

Until the AI starts killing humans. LOL

[@enessukru4468]

wonderful research, i think big companies should start utilizing the money that they have been gathering to create those 130 million new jobs because the distraction seems faster than the creating

[@bobthedestroyer9207]

Lot this think about. I would like to have a job that allows me to travel to a new country each month. Humanize ever comes by my work place their toys are going in the trash. I love how they interview employees who know if they say anything critical risk losing their jobs.

[@tonyrod4388]

This documentary went into everything, except into what it said on its title.

[@imogenthemoggie]

Well I guess it sort of answered that by saying: your current job may not be safe, but you should hopefully be able to get another one.

[@Zimboprenuer]

You wouldn't have opened this video if the title was boring

[@tonyrod4388]

@@Zimboprenuer so a movie named interesting HAS to be interesting? WOW!

[@Zimboprenuer]

@@tonyrod4388 The movie intresting would get a lot of attention. We have a few smart folks like you

[@kiwinacho]

I feel that people like the guy at 9:04 deserve free education much more than I do. Good reminder to really value what we have in first world countries.

[@tpndtbk]

amazing that this video was 2 years ago .. with covid, this become truer than ever.

[@doghouse010]

Jesus christ that Humanize company sounds like the precursor to thought police and pre-crime

[@LadyCoyKoi]

Skynet is coming... or is already here.

[@zackgravity7284]

George Orwell: *sweating

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

These claims that AI will create more jobs are based on the assumption that humans will have some skill in which they are better than machines, but it is a fragile assumption. Perhaps in some cases humans may prefer to relate to other humans, not because we have some better cognition, just because we may like the companionship of others of our species. But apart from these jobs, that may include escorts, entertainers, counselors, athletes, performers, among others, it is not sure that, in a few decades, we will still be better than the machines in some skill.

[@BiancaAguglia]

We don't have to be better than machines. We just have to figure out how to be better humans by using machines. For example, we're not faster than cars. We don't fly like planes do. But we're smart and creative. We built cars and planes, and now we're using them to travel faster and farther than ever before. Same thing with today's technology: we'll use it to do things we've always dreamed of. 😊

[@BiancaAguglia]

We don't have to be better than machines. We just have to figure out how to be better humans by using machines. For example, we're not faster than cars. We don't fly like planes do. But we're smart and creative. We built cars and planes, and now we're using them to travel faster and farther than ever before. Same thing with today's technology: we'll use it to do things we've always dreamed of. 😊

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

​@@BiancaAguglia Okay, but a machine can learn about human needs, and create new things to fulfill them. Not the ones of today, but people thought that AI would not be able to master Go so soon. We don't know what they will be capable off.

[@BiancaAguglia]

@@joaodecarvalho7012 There's nothing special about AI winning a game of Go. It's a complex game but it's still just a set of steps to a clearly labeled result. What would impress me is if AI won a game of Go and said, "That's awesome. What other game can I play?" But see, AI doesn't know that it won. It calculated (very fast) its way to a win. Then it stopped. It didn't want to play again. It didn't want to play a different game. There's nothing driving AI. Unless we provide it with a goal, AI does nothing.

[@RD-jc2eu]

@@BiancaAguglia I think you're underestimating how large a percentage of jobs in the world are "just a set of steps to a clearly labeled result." With exponential rate of increase in capabilities (or even a geometric rate of increase), it is not difficult to imagine the various forms of AI software (or AI software in combination w/ improved hardware) taking over existing jobs more quickly than the displaced workers can master the new skills needed to shift into a different job function.

[@nanishanelli985]

That’s such a Super invasion of privacy!!! What about when you have to go to the bathroom 🚽 🧻 that’s far to much data!!!

[@MAG320]

I have an office job w the city now, but let me find out theres a remote job open. Those are fun.

[@corinaspfx]

love how beautifully cape town is featured in the first 3 minutes

[@davidcripps3011]

A farm local to me (Sussex, England) recently installed a robot that picks 25,000 raspberries a day. The owner was on the radio saying this was because they were having to pay more than minimum wage for workers because of Brexit (immigrant workers heading home). This is the reality of automation. Jobs for humans will go. It's already happening.

[@julesk764]

I’m in Sussex as well ... Hi .

[@rajeevkhare]

This is just amazing ... really insightful

[@BiancaAguglia]

@rajeev khare I agree. I like how it din't just talk about the damage from lost jobs but also about the opportunities from new jobs and new tools.

[@debasismandal1228]

Music Ohh oh ohhh ohh oooohhhhh !!!

[@ginniem9779]

1:30 Where in Italy is that place? It looks so pretty!!

[@ryanfrizzell736]

Great. Now I know more information about employment.

[@Orf]

16:18 Whoa. Looks like that could be complete automation to me...The idea that that would create more jobs than it destroys is hard to believe. But hey I guess we'll see.

[@melelconquistador]

Jobs forr the educated probably. I wonder, if automation assists and cheapens labor. What accountability is held in the responsibility to rightfully retrain or properly employ? If the machines reduce and simplify tasks for humans, why not pay the humans less for their reduced input?

[@Radical_Cat]

"At some point someone will do the wrong thing with this kind of data"

[@samuelolatunbi]

I like this video, I will to receive more updates about post covid-19. Thank you.

[@Sowar]

The ending was a bit of a cop-out. Obviously Ocado is growing because it is taking market share from other more labour intensive businesses.

[@martinschulze5399]

Im working in AI research, just can tell you that we are just at the very beginning of what it is possible. The most scary thing for me is merging biology (specifically the brain) with technology as I really do fear this results in dystopian settings :( and another track is 'general intelligence' but currently we are are far far far away from human performance, we do not know much about it to be honest

[@ghostytigger6383]

the rest of us don't want that can you stop ?

[@martinschulze5399]

@@ghostytigger6383 no ^^

[@ghostytigger6383]

@@martinschulze5399 will we be forced to obey A.I will I have a choice?

[@maggie_codes]

If someone wanted to work in AI, what would be a list of skills would you recommend someone to learn?

[@boringsaliva6732]

I see all the technological developments happening without giving any consideration for the planet. With the increasing awareness, the green environmentalists are putting on the people, it would slow down the advances in the future making the system more and more complex and challenging.

[@cespo77]

These worries are not overblown just go to your local Walmart, Sam's club etc... Mostly auto check out with fewer employees.

[@FernandaValente]

I can't believe that some people accept such a controlling way of work. That's absurd

[@gravitasdiverbium]

Autonomous Business = Unemployment = Poverty = Economic Collapse

[@bryancopeland3411]

Blockchain and DLT will disrupt the gig economy, the best way to run this "collective workforce" is to decentralize it. Bye bye fiverr's 20% cut! I also believe that decentralization has the potential to solve the upcoming automation crisis, it makes more sense to allow everyone to own a stake in robotic labor rather than having one ceo keep all the profits.

[@philopateeratef4661]

dude you just described socialism fr😂

[@KirkBuchanan]

So many are going to actually surprised when this is the reality for all. My ex boss for sure is going to have a breakdown when he's not able to stand and micromanage his employees. Work liberation

[@joseantoniojose7933]

Thanks, was an interesting video.

[@mightbesherwood1313]

When Joseph opens his laptop in his unlit shack, and the keyboard glows green, that's dystopia in our eyes. But not in his.

[@JohnFinnigan1]

I would never work for a company that used Humanyze

[@kamalpreetsingh1686]

Useful information.....

[@Orf]

12:00 whoa...Forced to wear data badges. Always listening. Surveillance technology

[@jaywyse7150]

The Elite shall inherit the Earth.

[@maxpayne930]

Nope THEY will not the IA will kill them to good riddance i say:))))

[@aadisharma281]

at lest girl who says i don't work i am daddy's princess. wont be unemployed

[@StreetsAhead120]

What does Kenny Omega and Young Bucks have to do with this?

[@smartiejl]

The technocrats will

[@futavadumnezo]

And do what with it. Imagine, a hundred people, gods. All alone on Earth living with robots. The most important resource was neve gold or oil or anything else, it was people. For them, labor was the most important. Slaves to their will. But not anymore, the more technology advances the less they need us. What do you think they will do then? I don't know maybe give us a little gift like corona? the beer I mean...

[@cambridgemicrologiclimited9917]

AI is not about stealing jobs. It is a tool to do the tedious/dangerous jobs you don't want. Making what you do easier and more efficient.

[@edwardschneider6396]

Humanyze is a time study method that has been used in factories since the beginning of time.

[@unbeattable]

Quite ironic as the theme around work and living in the same area is quite reminiscent of a feudal work structure and the uproar the word “family” caused at google

[@maxwaller2055]

Never Completely Trust AnyOne, so thoroughly research everyone before supporting anyone on anything to become fully aware of who benefits and how since you may or may not benefit at all

[@gustavomartinez6892]

Great content as usual, the economist makes really great job in each story !!!

[@jattgaming4344]

This video is so inspirational, i got so much knowledgeable from this video

[@kenstreetsmart852]

The working middle class, is the engine that drives our economy. If you replace workers with robots. Who is going to buy the products and services the robots and AI are making. The robots and AI do not buy products and services. If you replace half the workers in our economy with automation, you are replacing half of all the consumers the economy depends on.

[@mrzack888]

12:06 if you think China's facial recognition was Orwellian, hahahha.

[@s.m.4198]

So what has happened to the digital nomads now that we are in a pandemic?

[@carmelaG20]

@Ocado So if the robots are creating more jobs than there would be without them, then what is the point of them? Wouldnt that mean you are paying more wages due to using robots? The main purpose of robots for companies is to save on wages.

[@futavadumnezo]

My solution would be this: full automatization will mean only maintenance workers and engineers will be needed on a production line the rest of the 'workers' would be people having rights to buy stock and a type of stock for each robot meaning you can buy stock for example 100 production or assembly robots and you get a share of the profit they make. Because they produce dozens and even hundreds of times faster and more than a human worker even if the stock share is low you still get enough money that could count as a salary. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, English is not my first language. Basically saying that robots do the work and we make a living out of stock shares, or work from home maybe. Worst case scenario, if they don't want to share, will be the government to force huge taxes and fees on them so they can pay a minimum 'wage' a social assistance pay.

[@KhaalixD]

this is so dumb, if you wanna buy stocks you already can. Instead of this why wouldn't we just tax the robots and then offer some sort of UBI to our population

[@user-ok3dy5su8s]

sound great.