Center for the Humanities Presents: Brian Merchant: The Human Cost of AI and Automation (Just AI Series)
Brian Merchant asks the questions that need to be asked about the human impacts of technology. The author of a bestselling book about the iPhone, The One Device, Merchant’s most recent book is Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Currently serving as journalist-inresidence at the AI Now Institute, Merchant has been The Los Angeles Times’ tech columnist, an editor at Motherboard, VICE’s science and technology publication, and the founder of Terraform, its online fiction site. He also established Automaton, a project that examined the human impact of AI and automation, for Gizmodo. Merchant’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, Wired, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post, Fast Company, Fortune, and others.