Will AI take Our Jobs?

The core question is that of continuity versus change. Not only do we find the genotypical logic of Aristotelian syllogisms whispering back to us in various ways in and as these aspirationally cognitive technologies, but we also find ourselves engaging in similarly antique philosophical reflections at almost every inflection point. Aligning personal experience and socioeconomic continuity with the constraints and uncertainties of endlessly accelerating sociotechnical complexity represents a “wicked problem”. Knowledge workers, researchers, and students must acquire and inhabit an adaptive orientation towards strategic ambiguity and surf the ineliminable uncertainty that this (uniquely stochastic) “Brave New World” now invokes.

Context: Questions from my son and the future of work