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Artificial Intelligence isn’t an imagined future. It’s right here, right now. So what are the perils of society’s rapid pivot to automation? How do we avoid displacement and dehumanization? And, most pressing, how do we find meaning in a world driven by algorithms?
These are important questions we need to be asking. Today’s guest is the right guy to help answer them—one of my very favorite online follows for his insights on automation, online radicalization, cybersecurity, and digital wellness.
A bestselling author and award-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kevin Roose specializes in technology and its effects on society—an interest that culminated in the mind-melting, must-listen podcast series Rabbit Hole, a story that exposes the many ways the internet influences our beliefs and behavior, often for the worse.
A significant portion of today’s conversation focuses on artificial intelligence and the many ways in which our increasingly automated world impacts humanity. It’s also the subject of Kevin’s latest book, Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation. Part A.I. primer part self-help survival guide, it breaks down the tools we need to be happy, successful humans in a world increasingly built by and for machines.
“In order to survive this wave of A.I. and automation, we need to become more human.”
– KEVIN ROOSE
As we usher in the age of artificial intelligence, more and more occupations are becoming automated. Social media algorithms not only frack our attention spans for clicks, but they have so thoroughly manipulated such that we now divest much of our decision-making and critical thinking skills (the things that literally makes us who we are) to technology.
This is an important, potentially life-altering breakdown of the many ways the internet and AI-based algorithms are degrading us, locking us into information silos, inciting emotion for profit, and threatening our inherent humanity.
It’s also a guide on surviving workplace automation, overcoming phone addiction, and protecting your time and attention.
In addition, Kevin provides his insider take on a variety of other notable technology curiosities from Clubhouse to NFTs, the future of podcasting, and many other subjects that I know will pique your interest.
The visually inclined can watch our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Our most powerful trait is our innate humanness. My hope is that this exchange will serve as a reminder.
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- Kevin Roose: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Book: Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
- Book: Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits
- Book: The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University
- Podcast: Rabbit Hole
- YouTube: Real Future
- TED: The Value of Your Humanity in an Automated Future
- New York Times: Kevin Roose Archive
- New York Times: The Robots Are Coming For Phil in Accounting
- New York Times: Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?
- New York Magazine: How to Ensure the Robots Won’t Come for Your Job
- New York Times: Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
- The Times: Futureproof by Kevin Roose review — how to stop a robot taking your job
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