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DESCRIPTION:Center for the Humanities Presents: Brian Merchant: The Human C
 ost of AI and Automation (Just AI Series)\n\n \n\nBrian 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 Rebellio
 n Against Big Tech.\n\n \n\nCurrently serving as journalist-inresidence at
  the AI Now Institute\, Merchant has been The Los Angeles Times’ tech co
 lumnist\, an editor at Motherboard\, VICE’s science and technology publi
 cation\, and the founder of Terraform\, its online fiction site. He also e
 stablished Automaton\, a project that examined the human impact of AI and 
 automation\, for Gizmodo. Merchant’s work has appeared in The New York T
 imes\, Harper’s\, Wired\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Slate\, The Wash
 ington Post\, Fast Company\, Fortune\, and others.
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SUMMARY:Brian Merchant: The Human Cost of AI and Automation
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 -cost-of-ai-and-automation
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