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Kirby: Linking basic income to automation is unnecessary and damaging
“So I would say, first of all, it's kind of an unnecessary link and it's sort of a damaging way of thinking about things.”
Kirby: Workplace computers eliminate specific tasks, not entire jobs
“When computers move into a workplace, they never take anybody's entire job, that what they do is they take away certain tasks”
Kirby: Smart machines will encroach upon every knowledge work job
“So the reality is that every knowledge work job is going to see this encroachment of smart machines into the workplace.”
Kirby: Focusing on newly discovered niche domains insulates workers from automation
“For instance, in scientific inquiry, you know, you're always looking for the thing that hasn't yet been discovered, and you're kind of going into narrower and narrower and narrower niches, and that is a very viable strategy for human work, because only after t…”