The writer is director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge and co-author of ‘Should You Choose to Live Forever? A Debate’
Are you worried about what you will do when machines can do everything better? We regularly hear warnings that AI will usher in “a new era of mass unemployment”, as London mayor Sadiq Khan put it recently. The implications of this are not just financial — work is how many of us find purpose. A 2024 study found that 93 per cent of participants experienced anxiety about meaninglessness in light of AI advancements.
These worries are understandable. But this dystopian fantasy of uselessness is not inevitable. The idea that AI will make our lives meaningless is based on three fallacies.
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