Category: Work
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AI and the slippery slope to zero friction…
A while ago I wrote a post about the problems of an algorithmically lubricated frictionless world – especially when it came to labour markets. Good to see the FT picking up on this exact issue in this piece: You can almost hear the howls of frustration from HR departments. Jobseekers have discovered artificial intelligence and…
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Anthropy | Motivation
I was fortunate enough to spend a few days last week down at the Anthopy UK event in Cornwall. As their description goes: Anthropy brings together responsible leaders and organisations to look at how to make the UK a better place. Working with a cross-sector network welcoming business and non-profits alike, Anthropy facilitates changing practices,…
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Frictionless: why free-flows of information are not doing us any good
“Recruitment… it’s just totally broken” This week I was at an event in Bournemouth visiting the excellent Spear project there, and the collaboration they were doing with a job agency, Pollen. One of the young people on the panel that formed part of the event is an advisor in a job centre, and she, and…
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The Portrait of the Artist as… a Canary in a Coal Mine
A privilege today to chair a fantastic panel at the AI Fringe event at the British Library in London, mirroring the AI Action Summit going on in Paris. I was there both in my work role – helping lead the CREAATIF project along with the Turing Institute and Queen Mary University that’s been investigating how…
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The Future of Work and Wellbeing
It’s been quiet around here, mostly because my energies have almost exclusively been focused delivering a conference and 180 page report for the closing of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing. This is a major, 3-year research project completed with multi-million funding from the Nuffield Foundation exploring how AI and automation…
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Overqualified?
I ended up on PM – the BBC’s flagship 5pm news show last week, chatting to Evan Davis about a report that showed that British workers are more likely than most to be overqualified for the job they do. There’s important questions here about the quality of jobs that are being created as we go…