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Will AI free us from work?

Will AI free us from work?

Update: 2025-10-28
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Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of LSE iQ, Sophie Mallett sits down with Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE’s Emeritus Professor of Sociology and one of the world’s leading voices on technology and society. Together, they explore one of the biggest questions of our time: what does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Judy shares what really saves people time, talks about the fear of job replacement, and warns of the dangers of letting the most powerful tech companies design the future
From Silicon Valley boardrooms to everyday lives, Judy challenges us to think differently about progress, productivity, and what we truly value as work.
Contributors: Judy Wacjman
Research links:
From connection to optimisation
How Silicon Valley sets time
Feminism confronts AI: the gender relations of digitalisation
LSE iQ is a university podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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