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Every generation thinks new technology will eliminate jobs. Jeff Crume and Bri Kopecki explore how cars, electricity, PCs, the internet, and now AI changed work throughout history. Learn why AI automates tasks, creates new opportunities, and may reshape jobs more than it replaces them.
00:00 - Why Every Generation Thinks “This Time Is Different”
00:23 - The Horse Economy: When Cars Replaced an Entire Industry
01:32 - How New Technologies Create More Jobs Than They Destroy
02:28 - Electricity, PCs, and the Internet: Repeating the Same Pattern
03:48 - Smartphones and the Rise of Entirely New Economies
04:45 - The ATM Example: When Automation Increases Jobs
05:32 - Jevons Paradox: Why Efficiency Creates More Demand
06:43 - AI and Software: Faster Development Means More to Build
07:20 - Why Headlines Miss the Jobs on the Other Side of the Mountain
08:35 - Technological Unemployment Myths Through History
09:26 - Jobs Are Bundles of Tasks — AI Removes Tasks, Not Work
10:55 - The Real Future: Learn the Tools, Invent the Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet
11:58 - Despite Predictions, Unemployment Hasn’t Spiked from AI
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Every generation thinks new technology will eliminate jobs. Jeff Crume and Bri Kopecki explore how cars, electricity, PCs, the internet, and now AI changed work throughout history. Learn why AI automates tasks, creates new opportunities, and may reshape jobs more than it replaces them.
00:00 - Why Every Generation Thinks “This Time Is Different”
00:23 - The Horse Economy: When Cars Replaced an Entire Industry
01:32 - How New Technologies Create More Jobs Than They Destroy
02:28 - Electricity, PCs, and the Internet: Repeating the Same Pattern
03:48 - Smartphones and the Rise of Entirely New Economies
04:45 - The ATM Example: When Automation Increases Jobs
05:32 - Jevons Paradox: Why Efficiency Creates More Demand
06:43 - AI and Software: Faster Development Means More to Build
07:20 - Why Headlines Miss the Jobs on the Other Side of the Mountain
08:35 - Technological Unemployment Myths Through History
09:26 - Jobs Are Bundles of Tasks — AI Removes Tasks, Not Work
10:55 - The Real Future: Learn the Tools, Invent the Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet
11:58 - Despite Predictions, Unemployment Hasn’t Spiked from AI
AI news moves fast. Sign up for a monthly newsletter for AI updates from IBM → https://ibm.biz/~dnD2PpLvP
AI was used in the creation of the transcript and metadata for this video.
#aijobs #futureofwork #aiagents #automation
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Find us on YouTube:
🔵 IBM Technology: https://www.youtube.com/@IBMTechnology
🔵 IBM: https://www.youtube.com/@IBM
🔵 IBM Developer: https://youtube.com/@IBMDeveloperAdvocates