#162: How will artificial intelligence, AI, impact jobs? Former Harvard president and leading economist Larry Summers predicts that one-third of men will be out of work by 2050. Finance guru Suze Orman says not to be surprised if we see 25 percent unemployment by 2030. And major research institutions predict anywhere from 14 percent to 50 percent unemploymen ... Show More
Nov 21
What If Everything We Know About Hiring Is Wrong?, with William Vanderbloemen
#662: Most teams hire for skills. The best teams hire for wiring.
What if the reason someone accelerates your organization, or quietly derails it, has more to do with their response time, processing style, or sense of mission than their résumé?
This episode dives into the ... Show More
1h 19m
Nov 18
Q&A: She's Broke. He's Rich. And You're Asking About AI Stocks.
#661: When your income drops, debt spikes, and a rental property starts bleeding cash, it can feel like your entire financial foundation is cracking beneath you. Veronica, our first caller, is navigating all of it at once, from a near-foreclosure to a luxury car payment that’s st ... Show More
1h 20m
Nov 14
The Brutal Math of Caring for Aging Parents, with MarketWatch Columnist Beth Pinsker
#660: Caring for an aging parent can morph into a second full-time job, and even the most financially savvy adults get blindsided. Bank accounts freeze, home sales stall, and family savings disappear faster than anyone expects.
In this episode, we dig into what really happens ... Show More
1h 2m
Jul 2023
Tech and AI: 9. Will AI take my job?
AI is now able to do some types of work faster and cheaper than human beings, and some workers have already found themselves out of a job. Earlier this year, a report from Goldman Sachs said that AI could potentially replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, and a dif ... Show More
14m 30s
Oct 2018
S1 Ep1: How will the automation of jobs progress?
In 2013 two Oxford academics published a paper entitled “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?”, estimating that 47% of U.S. jobs were at risk of automation. Since then, numerous studies have emerged, arriving at very different conclusions. So whe ... Show More
1h 5m
Sep 2023
Dror Poleg — The Future of Work
<div dir="auto"><span class="il">Dror</span> <span class= "il">Poleg</span> is an author, speaker, and researcher investigating technology's impact on the way people work, live, and invest. He joins us to discuss the relationship between AI and remote work, how cities are going t ... Show More
1h 34m
Jan 2022
Will staff shortages bring about the rise of the robots?
<p>Staff shortages are one of the most consequential by-products of the latest coronavirus variant, Omicron. Health care, aviation, education and dining are among the industries scrambling for employees to provide essential services.</p>
<p>As the pandemic enters its third year, ... Show More
22 m
Aug 2019
How Robots and AI Are Changing Job Training
Matt Beane, assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, finds that robots, machine learning, and AI are changing how we train for our jobs — not just how we do them. His study shows that robot-assisted surgery is disrupting the traditional learning pathway ... Show More
24m 32s