This interview appeared in La Fronde’s June 9 newsletter issue.
The media layoffs have nothing to do with AI. That's not wishful thinking — it's backed by research, according to Meredith Broussard, the NYU professor, ethicist and data journalist who has been scrutinizing AI longer than most people knew it existed.
Meredith was one of only six undergraduate women studying a computer science concentration at Harvard when she enrolled in 1991. After her stint in Cambridge, she became a features editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and coined the term "technochauvinism" — the belief that technology is always superior to human judgment — in her 2018 book ‘Artificial Unintelligence.’ She saw what was coming before the rest of us did. So when she says the bots aren't taking your job, it's worth listening to.
I talked to Meredith about how AI really might impact our jobs, how AI bias negatively impacts women and people of color at work more than we realize, and why AI will never be able to replicate your writing.
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