Will new technologies make or break our jobs? Book discussion with Sarah O’Connor

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New technologies have been creating and destroying jobs for millennia. In recent decades, automation has upended the way many people work, and now artificial intelligence threatens further upheaval. The impact of these trends is often described in headline job numbers. But what do they actually mean for the way we live our daily working lives? In a groundbreaking new book, prize-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor sets out to investigate what is happening on the front lines of technological change. She finds people who aren’t losing their jobs to machines, but who feel they are losing something else instead. But she finds hopeful stories, too: of jobs being made better, safer…