While the Close All Tabs team churns out our next few episodes, we bring you this must-listen from Life, Automated. Generative AI is able to conjure new images, stories, and songs at lightning speed. So what does this mean for humans artists, storytellers and musicians?
Life, Automated Host Jess Love explores what happens when AI enters creative markets. We learn that, at least today, key bottlenecks prevent AI from replicating some aspects of creativity. But there’s no guarantee those bottlenecks will exist tomorrow, raising vital questions about what we value in human labor.
Life, Automated is a series about how to live, work and make decisions in a world increasingly shaped by machines. It is a production of the Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and it is distributed by KQED.
Host and Senior Director: Jess Love
Producer: Steven Jackson
Senior Producer: Jesse Dukes
Music: Steven Jackson
Associate Producer: Stacia Sliger
Recording: George Christensen, Will Feeney
Promotional help from Ananya Mallapragada and Charlotte Simmons.
Music provided by Steven Jackson, Cue Shop and Neutral Propulsion Laboratory
Guests:
Ben Jones, economist, co-director of the Ryan Institute on Complexity
Sam Goldberg, assistant professor of marketing, Stanford
Yevgenia Nayberg, artist, illustrator, children’s book author
Further Reading/Listening:
Generative AI & Creative Goods: Market Expansion, Crowd-out, and Copyright — Samuel Goldberg, Stanford Graduate School of Business
‘Life, Automated’ explores how AI is reshaping our world — Roger Anderson, Northwestern Kellogg
Life, Automated Podcast — KQED
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Credits: Close All Tabs is hosted by Morgan Sung. Our team includes producer Maya Cueva, editor Chris Hambrick and senior editor Chris Egusa who also composed our theme song and credits music. Additional production support from Pauline Bartolone. Our intern is Lauren Yoon. Additional music from APM. Audio engineering by Brendan Willard. Audience engagement support from Maha Sanad. Jen Chien is our Director of Podcasts. Ethan Toven-Lindsey is our Editor in Chief.
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