The Myth of Automation: How AI is and Will Remain Dependent on Cheap Labour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oRkW9_Gz54
SOCIETY
Issue #456
1 Oct 2025
Another well reasoned view which we can say falls into the ‘AI Skeptics’ camp. Antonio Casilli makes the observation that despite technological innovations, more people are in work than ever before, and those in that work are working harder than ever before. How is this possible if technology → automation → unemployment? Casilli’s main point is ‘automation’ still takes place within the social context of social organisation. Well worth a watch / listen