Will AI Kill Your Job? w/ Brian Merchant
09 04 25
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Will AI Kill Your Job?
Brian Merchant
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss whether the AI bubble is about to burst and how bosses are deploying AI tools to kill jobs and degrade work.
Guest
Brian Merchant is the author of Blood in the Machine and writes a newsletter of the same name.
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Links
- Brian has a series called AI Killed My Job with existing entries on tech workers and translators.
- Brian encourages listeners to check out the work being done by the National Writer’s Union, Translators Against the Machine, and Lucile Danilov at Loc’d and Loaded.
- You can contact Brian directly by emailing aikilledmyjob@pm.me
- A Stanford paper published this week explores the effects of AGI on employment.