Working on Radical Hope
The discourse surrounding the Future of Work still needs a lot of improvement. With far too much power handed over to those who do not have society’s best interest at heart, we may be in danger of forgetting a few important things. We have agency. The future has not happened. There is hope.
In this episode, I talk to Dr Nicky Dries of the Future of Work Lab, KU Leuven. We discuss what is still missing from the conversation around jobs, AI, and the future - and what we stand to get wrong if we don’t make some changes.
Listen in for a necessary discussion that centers human quality, critiques predictive analysis, and provides alternative imaginaries for possible futures informed by radical hope.
References
Frey, Carl Benedikt & Osborne, Michael A., 2017. "The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 254-280.
Dries, N., Luyckx, J., & Rogiers, P. (2023). Imagining the (Distant) future of work. Academy of Management Discoveries, 10(3), 319–350. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2022.0130
Dries, N., Luyckx, J., & Rogiers, P. (2024). What 570 Experts Predict the Future of Work Will Look Like. Harvard Business Review.
Mollick, Ethan, (2023). Detecting the Secret Cyborgs: The AI Trap for Organizations, One Useful Thing.