{"id":1865,"date":"2019-08-05T03:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kusuaks7\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:57:57","slug":"the-ai-economy-is-eating-us-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/ai-ml\/the-ai-economy-is-eating-us-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI Economy Is Eating Us Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAI-driven platforms\u00a0are learning a little more about you every day. And that\u2019s not entirely a bad thing\u2014it means that you get more use and value out of these platforms through their\u00a0insights and matching algorithms. For example, Facebook connects you with your friends, Airbnb lets you make money off that back apartment, and Turo.com lets you rent that vacant car when you don\u2019t need it. No one is worried about the poor apartments or cars being over-utilized.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBut what about you? AI-based platforms are also quantifying and getting value from you\u2014your contacts (Facebook, LinkedIn), your ideas (Yelp, IdeaScale), your skills (Etsy, TaskRabbit), your free time (Uber, Upwork), your shopping habits (Amazon, Alphabet) and even your very genes (Ancestry.com). The tradeoffs here are not so clear. Companies like Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet win big using your data. So, on top of worrying about whether or not AI will steal your job (a real concern), you must also worry about AI stealing your time, information, ideas, relationships, and more. AI is breaking us down into our piece parts, and using them up.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToday\u2019s platform-based, AI-powered companies, allow us to be easily disaggregated, valued, and shared (with dubious compensation)\u00a0with the companies that we think serve us. Disaggregation is not a new concept\u2014consider fabless manufacturing in semiconductors\u2014but it\u2019s reaching new extremes in its application to human beings. Now we can disaggregate, value, and sell ourselves, one hour, one pint of blood, and one Instagram post at a time. Platforms lower transactions costs, increase options, and create 24\/7 accessibility. And this is not all positive for human beings. We are not production plants with a clear utilization goal, and so we must each answer the questions: Is 40 hours of work sufficient each week? Should our hobbies be monetized?\u00a0How\u00a0many likes do we need on our\u00a0social media accounts? And are we getting more value out of the relationship than the companies that capture our data?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHaving options is a good thing, but along with these options has come the pressure to utilize our time, our assets, and ourselves at 100%. Today nearly\u00a04 in 10 Americans<\/a>\u00a0have a side hustle\u2014meaning they are doing gig work on top of a full-time job. The side hustle is not only the realm of Uber drives and Airbnb hosts. There is a wide range of skillsets that can easily do the \u201cgig\u201d thing. Even highly educated and trained workers, with backgrounds in top-tier consulting or machine learning have a variety of platforms to choose from to offer up their night-and-weekend hours. Companies like Upwork, which recently went public, are allowing us to share our skills and monetize our capabilities one hour at a time.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur hobbies, too, are monetizable. Do you like to knit, paint, or do woodwork? Perhaps you\u2019d like to sell your creations online on Etsy or Amazon Handmade. AI machines are keeping track. And with that availability, we all start to get the mindset that if we\u2019re going to do it, we need to quantify and monetize it. No hobby, relationship, or asset should be wasted\u2014or at least that\u2019s what we have come to think. Even our vacation time gets quantified and valued by the likes and comments of our followers on Facebook and Instagram. We offer ourselves up for consumption and grading daily.\n

Smart machines are breaking us down into pieces, and we are helping. We are being disaggregated into not just the number of working hours (hopefully all billed at a high wage), but into our hobbies (if you can\u2019t sell your work then can you at least you can create a hit Instagram brand?), our precious free time it (how many likes did that pic of your baby get?), not to mention our physical selves (you can always sell your plasma for extra dough and don\u2019t worry about how body scanners and genetic analyzers might use your data).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s no wonder that\u00a0we are all so, so stressed<\/a>. We now feel the pressure to spend our every waking moment either productively earning money or\u00a0proving that we are cool, talented, and happy. In the process we our sharing every part of ourselves. Platforms, web browsers, sensors, and even our Alexas gather our data and feed into the AI machine.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSo, what\u2019s the answer when the world is eating you alive? We each need to decide what utilization and value looks like for us personally\u2014not just what the platform companies want for us. There are some things in the world that you should keep just for yourself, and free from observation, judgment and monetization The 50 likes you get for a picture of your child doesn\u2019t make them any more lovable and previous, nor you any more valuable. And the extra income you get on a gig platform while giving up your sleep often won\u2019t make you any happier or more productive. The right measures for your happy life might be hours spent outside, lowered blood pressure, and nights sleeping in your own bed. We don\u2019t discourage anyone from making the most of the opportunities offered by today\u2019s AI powered platform economy, but we all need to keep in mind that the AI world will gobble us up if we\u2019re not careful.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI-based platforms are quantifying and getting value from you by gathering your contacts, your ideas, your skills, your free time, your shopping habits and even your very genes. The tradeoffs here are not so clear. Companies win big using your data. So, on top of worrying about whether or not AI will steal your job, you must also worry about AI stealing your time, information, ideas, relationships, and more. AI is breaking us down into our piece parts, and using them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[97],"ppma_author":[1627],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-ml","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"authors":[{"term_id":1627,"user_id":69,"is_guest":0,"slug":"barry-libert","display_name":"Barry Libert","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"Libert","first_name":"Barry","job_title":"","description":"Barry Libert is the co-founder of AIMatters, an AI startup serving the C-Suite with the first AI powered strategy platform.  He serves on a number of boards and advises CEO of startups and large enterprises on becoming AI-first companies. He also co-wrote The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models published by HBR. "}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36908,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/36908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}