Will AI Kill Your Job?
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us: Brian Merchant discusses the AI job crisis.
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Will AI Kill Your Job? w/ Brian Merchant | Tech Won’t Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss whether the AI bubble is about to burst and how bosses are deploying AI tools to kill jobs and degrade work.
Brian Merchant is the author of Blood in the Machine and writes a newsletter of the same name.
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Attendees gather at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research and OpenAI conference on the NCCU campus on August 29, 2025.
(DeAndres Royal / North Carolina Central University via Getty Images)Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss whether the AI bubble is about to burst and how bosses are deploying AI tools to kill jobs and degrade work.
Brian Merchant is the author of Blood in the Machine and writes a newsletter of the same name.
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How Mass Layoffs Changed Working in Tech w/ Clarissa Redwine & JS Tan / Tech Won’t Save Us
Not long ago, tech jobs were sought after for their security, benefits, wages, and the progressive values promoted by Silicon Valley companies. But now workers are barely hanging on. Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan join Paris Marx to discuss the state of worker organizing in the tech industry, including how it’s changed since the mid-2010s and where it needs to go from here.
Clarissa Redwine is a tech worker and labor activist. JS Tan is a PhD candidate at MIT and writes the Value Added newsletter. They are the authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry.
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