AI: The Disruptor of the White Collar Workforce - Creative Futurism

John and Kevin sit down with futurist Brett King, author of 'Breaking Banks' and new title 'Augmented', for a conversation about how the next wave of AI and automation will vastly alter the white collar work force. What will 'work' look like in age of AI? Is Universal Basic Income the model that will allow for society's smooth transition to this new world? Dive into the conversation and find out.

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Transcription:

John:                     Hello everyone and welcome to this edition of Creative Futurism. I’m John Best.

Kevin:                   And I’m Kevin J. Anderson

Brett:                     And I’m Brett King.

John:                      Oh, and there’s Brett.

Kevin:                    Oh, he introduced himself. What a guy, good.

Brett:                      But everyone else was doing it so . .

John:                     I love it. Well that’s awesome. So, we’ll get right to it here. So this week we have the noted            author, best-selling author, New York Times best-selling author, and author of Bank 4.0, author of Augmented, also the CEO of Moven. And a friend of mine, I’m glad to say. And this week we’re going to talk a little bit about sort of the future, his last book Augmented. We’re going to talk a little bit about techno-socialism and then we’re going to touch on Bank 4.0. So welcome Brett.

Brett:                       Thanks for having me back John. It’s always good fun.

John:                       Oh yeah, well I’m excited because we’ve got the other best-selling author with us,

Kevin J. Anderson. Who you’ve read his books, right? So-

Brett:                      --Absolutely.

John:                       Very, very cool. I hadn’t realized that when I invited you on the show. I just finished Clockwork Angels which was amazing. So, now we have you two geniuses on this show here. I just can’t wait to lop some things out there. So, let’s get right to it then. So, I’m going to lob out the first thing. So, in your book Augmented you kind of talked about how the technology cycles are continually getting faster and faster and how that’s changing the world around us. And you and I have discussed this on our show many times. But one of the points of this show is that people like Kevin inspire folks like you Brett who kind of make the future, right? I like to think of it as the Star Trek effect, right? You’re watching the old Star Trek movie, you see the communicators and suddenly we get the cellphone, right? And then we just recently had doctor doctor, is that how you say it? You have to put the two-

Kevin:                    -Doctor doctor, Yes, that’s how he likes to pronounce it.

John:                       Right, because he’s the only person ever to get two doctors at the same time. Two PhD’s at the same time. And one of his Xprize’s was the tri-quarter, right? And so, in your book Augmented those are the kinds of concepts that you bring together. So, why don’t you give us just a little background for the audience on Augmented. And then Kevin I’m sure has four million questions and we’ll just get rolling.

Brett:                       And so, I’m a frustrated sci-fi author myself, right? I haven’t written-I wrote a sci-fi novel and never published it. Augmented was my-was cathodic in that respect. But I read a ton of sci-fi. I think if I can be so bold in terms of Kevin’s stuff, The Saga of the Seven Suns to me was a great series, The Martian War. So,