What Is Work For? A New Survey of 8,234 Workers Asks What We Lose if AI Takes the Job

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Would you quit if your salary were guaranteed? In a new survey of 8,234 workers in the UK, US, Denmark and India, about one in five said no, even at 120%. What the arXiv preprint “What is Work For?” by Julian Jacobs (Oxford and Google DeepMind) finds about meaning, community, status and pay, where it is strong, where it is thin, and what it means for companies and workers as AI takes on more work.
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