The Age of Self-Capital: Work, Identity, and Artificial Intelligence
As AI reshapes labor markets, the most valuable forms of work are no longer tasks but traits. Al Binns examines how AI accelerates a system in which personality and identity are increasingly monetized. The question is not whether work will disappear but what kind of human life will remain.
As AI reshapes labor markets, the most valuable forms of work are no longer tasks but traits. Al Binns examines how AI accelerates a system in which personality and identity are increasingly monetized. The question is not whether work will disappear but what kind of human life will remain.
With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) comes a question: What will we do when there is no more work to do? At first blush, this can sound hyperbolic, especially at a moment when many people still use tools such as ChatGPT as elaborate search engines. Yet the data points not just to job disruption but, instead, to a transformation in what work itself demands from us.
Timeless reading in a fleeting world.
