Judy Wajcman: AI will be good for diagnostics, but not for educating kids

Abstract

Judy Wajcman has spent her career studying the effects of technological change on society and work. She thinks AI will improve our lives in many ways, but there are limits to what it can do. “I’m disturbed that our imagination of the future is taken up with technology, rather than a society and a politics that we would want”. In this Q&A with Sophie Mallet, she talked about everything from universal basic income to the use of AI in diagnostics, education and care work.