"Will I Be Automated?"

This episode is part pep talk and part real talk. In short:

You are not replaceable.

You are more than your economic activity.

Your professional work matters.

References from the episode:

• Information on:

  • Waves of suicides among Foxconn workers

  • Kenyan workers training ChatGPT

  • The ecological impact of data centers

  • Effects of e-waste sites

  • Cobalt mines in DRC

  • WHO declaring a loneliness epidemic

• Instead of focusing only on the new aspects of tech, let’s also ask “what’s old?”: Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality

• The perfectionism of moral purity is impossible and distracts us from ethical life: Alexis Shotwell, Against Purity

  And some extra links:

• When mentioning the tyranny efficiency, I was reminded of this great chat on beauty between

  Dougald Hine
  and
  Caroline Ross

• I’m lucky enough to attend

  Perspectiva
  ’s Realisation Festival this June and am interested in how they infuse the days with spaciousness