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  • To Thrive Alongside AI, Find the Bottlenecks (with Ben Jones)

    To Thrive Alongside AI, Find the Bottlenecks (with Ben Jones)
    2026/07/15
    Will AI actually take over every job ever? Economist Ben Jones doesn't think so. Drawing from historical evidence around innovation, Jones argues that automation never conquers everything — it inevitably creates operational bottlenecks that only humans can solve. By leaning into these bottlenecks, we can protect meaningful, well-paid work. But his optimism comes with a stark caveat: there is one nightmare scenario where this historical pattern breaks down entirely. And it doesn’t involve superintelligence. It involves mediocre AI. Life, Automated is a production of the Ryan Institute on Complexity, at Northwestern’s Kellogg School. The host is Jess Love, senior director. Distribution by KQED. Senior Producer: Jesse Dukes Additional Production and music: Steven Jackson Administrative and editorial support: Stacia Sliger Thanks to Laura Pavin, Jen Chien, and Alexandra Salomon. Additional music for this episode from Cue Shop Moby Gratis Neutral Propulsion Laboratory Ben Jones recent article, How AI Could Benefit Workers, Even If It Displaces Most Jobs.
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    37 分
  • Coming July 15th! Life, Automated

    Coming July 15th! Life, Automated
    2026/06/23
    Life, Automated explores the surreal, exciting, and occasionally terrifying ways AI and automation are reshaping our daily lives.Through thoughtful conversations with researchers, practitioners, artists, and more, we do our best to make sense of how technology is changing—and how it is changing us. We ask: What does the economy look like if AI can do much of what humans can? Will AI tools isolate us further, or steer us back toward community and common ground? Can the average person expect to be better off a decade from now? And what the heck should we tell a sixteen year old who wants to know whether learning German (or design, or coding, or the piano) is still worth it? Life, Automated is grounded and non-ideological, going deep without getting too technical. Because you shouldn’t need to be an “AI person” to understand the future we’re collectively building. The show is a production of the Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, distributed by KQED. You can reach us at lifeautomatedpod@gmail.com. Production note: We relied on the Freesound Project for many of the sound effects used in this trailer. Including: Alarm clock School Bus Air break Computer mouse All made available through Creative Commons licenses.
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    2 分