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The Future of Work
A topic hub for the philosophy of the future of work: automation, artificial intelligence, platform labor, the value of meaningful work, and the politics of a world in which machines do much of the work.
The future of work is a question about the meaning of human life: if machines do the work, what will human beings do, and what will we be for? This hub explores the philosophical stakes.
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