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SUMMARY:Book talk - 'We Are Not Machines - The Fight for the Future of Wor
 k' with Sarah O'Connor
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DESCRIPTION:A tsunami of change\, we are told\, is sweeping the economy as
  robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we wo
 rry that we’re robotising our work\, what if the real risk is that we’
 re robotising ourselves?\n\nWhen prize-winning Financial Times journalist 
 Sarah O’Connor set out to investigate what was happening on the front li
 nes of technological change\, she found people who weren’t losing their 
 jobs to machines\, but who felt they were losing something else instead. F
 rom translators forced to edit AI output to university graduates interview
 ed by software and warehouse workers surrounded by robots\, she heard stor
 ies of work becoming lonelier\, less creative\, less human.\n\nBut O’Con
 nor also found hopeful stories of jobs being made better\, safer and more 
 enjoyable – where workers haven’t rejected the new tools\, but instead
  have learned to control them. Exploring questions of power\, design\, ins
 titutions and ideas\, her reporting shows that the way technology changes 
 the world of work is not pre-determined\, but must be contested and shaped
  by all of us.\n\nInspired by stories from nineteenth-century English cott
 on mills to twenty-first century Swedish mines\, We Are Not Machines revea
 ls how we can fight for work which is more respectful of our limits\, and 
 more worthy of our minds.
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LOCATION:Oxford Martin School - Lecture Theatre (and Online)\, Lecture The
 atre (and Online) Oxford Martin School 34 Broad Street Oxford Oxfordshire 
 OX1 3BD United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Sarah O'Connor (Invited speaker)
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