This week: We become cheerleaders for crypto regulation, AI, and…cheerleaders. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the GENIUS act, the major crypto regulation bill which recently passed the Senate, and its implications for regulating stable coins and how it could upend payment processing as we know it in the United States. Then, the hosts discuss the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, who recently received a 400% raise as chronicled on the Netflix series America's Sweethearts. And finally the hosts listen and react to an AI recreation of the podcast with the help by one of our listeners. Please enjoy your new parasocial relationships with Felix-bot, Emily-bot, and Elizabeth-bot.

He isn't satisfied: This is the only work he's gotten in the past two weeks. Sharma is from Bihar, one of India's poorest states. But he's earned a decent living as a migrant agricultural laborer since moving to the northern state of Haryana 12 years ago. Haryana's agricultural sector relies on hundreds of thousands of Bihari laborers, and in the small village of Ghuskani, where Sharma lives, more than 87 migrant laborers work in fields, clean cattle sheds, and perform factory jobs. Sharma has sprayed insecticides on practically every farm in the village over the past 12 years.

ON THIS WEEK'S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode are joined by c, or as she is more widely known, Grimes. Earlier this year, she launched Elf.tech, a website where her fans can use AI to build their own Grimes songs based on her vocals and stems. They talk about why c wants to push the boundaries of AI art and why, despite being a techno-optimist at heart, she's worried about our AI future. Check out the Big Interview with c by Steven Levy in the September issue of WIRED. If you missed our episode with Puja Patel, the editor in chief of Pitchfork, about the new wave of generative AI in music--and AI-generated Drake--you can catch up here.

Since the emergence of OpenAI's ChatGPT - an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, people are worried that the powerful technology may eliminate several jobs in the future. Recently, Sam Altman, the CEO of the company that created ChatGPT, also revealed that he was "a little bit scared" of his company's invention. Now, a new study by OpenAI, Open Research, and the University of Pennsylvania has revealed the jobs that are most at risk of being lost due to the technological revolution triggered by ChatGPT, Metro reported. The study is titled "GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models'' which basically identifies the potential exposure that each job has to large language models. According to the study, higher-paying jobs are more likely to be affected compared to lower-paying ones. Jobs that don't require formal educational credentials are safe from ChatGPT while professions that require proficiency in programming and writing are more susceptible to being automated. Jobs that are heavily reliant on scientific and critical thinking skills are less prone to automation. Meanwhile, people with professional degrees and higher incomes are more at risk of losing their jobs to AI. Sectors such as Finance, Education, Journalism, Engineering, and Graphic Design face a greater threat of being supplemented by AI. OpenAI recently launched GPT-4, the AI technology that exhibits human-level performance on some professional and academic tasks. According to the company blog, the latest chatbot is "more creative and collaborative than ever before" and would "solve difficult problems with greater accuracy" than its earlier versions. During an interview with ABC News, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke about ChatGPT and said, "It is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that's true.

Here's a question that's been percolating since ChatGPT abruptly entered the mainstream: Does AI provide more avenues to enhance and augment education, or drive it into obsolescence? According to Under 30 Europe lister Joel Hellermark, the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning is rife with possibilities that can help the ways in which humans learn and collaborate, not replace them. He offered the calculator as a comparison: "If we think about it just like an insanely powerful calculator, you'd want everyone to just learn to use the calculator. Why should you sit there and do a bunch of calculations? The 26-year-old cofounder of software company Sana Labs has been immersed in the coding space since taking online Stanford courses at just 13 years old in Sweden. Now, at his startup, he's built an AI-driven software to help businesses manage workforce onboarding and training. The program pulls from correspondences, documents and the internet to answer questions and help train employees. Sana introduced the product to the world just as it was shutting down in 2020, and initially offered their platform to hospitals free of charge (over 2,000 took them up on the offer). Sana has since landed paying clients, including Klarna, Merck and Electrolux, and has raised $54.5 million. Hellermark, who dropped out of school at 19 to start the company, envisions a near future where the content we interact with is presented to us dynamically and with our personal contexts in play. "We're so used to creating content and then someone consumes the exact thing that you created– that goes all the way back to the printing press," says Hellermark. "It hasn't changed that much since.

Work is a state of upheaval--and beyond shifts in where and when people work, changes are occurring in the content of work itself--literally in responsibilities, tasks and assignments. This is fueled by AI and most recently, ChatGPT. People are uncertain about whether they'll be replaced by technology--and at the same time, they're looking for greater meaning from work and more flexibility in how they go about it. But it is possible to reimagine the work experience in the new digital landscape, emphasizing what humans do best and ensuring the work experience is engaging, challenging and secure. You can inspire people about a vision for what's next and how they can be part of helping the organization get there.

Will AI replace your job? Work is a state of upheaval--and beyond shifts in where and when people work, changes are occurring in the content of work itself--literally in responsibilities, tasks and assignments. This is fueled by AI and most recently, ChatGPT. People are uncertain about whether they'll be replaced by technology--and at the same time, they're looking for greater meaning from work and more flexibility in how they go about it. But it is possible to reimagine the work experience in the new digital landscape, emphasizing what humans do best and ensuring the work experience is engaging, challenging and secure.

Any news article, book, or film that predicts the world's future, a utopian or dystopian one, always has one thing in common -- the dominance of technology. Now more than ever, that future seems real and possible with the rise of artificial intelligence. On my podcast Figuring Out, I spoke to Srikanth Velamakanni, the founder of Fractal Analytics, a leading player in the artificial intelligence and transformative enterprise decision-making space. We discussed all things tech and more. As anticipated, AI (artificial intelligence) dominated the conversation to a large extent, which got me thinking about its impact on the employment market.

In a short period of about 5–10 years, Humanity has met AI. And over this period, some Humans have grown skeptical, pessimistic, and jealous towards AI. And, they have a reason to be. Create enough hunger and we're just monkeys. I look at AI in a very optimistic fashion.

Will smart machines someday replace attorneys, physicians, computer programmers, and world leaders? Are we just wetware, natural computers doomed to obsolescence by tomorrow's ultra-powerful artificial intelligence? A pioneer in computing intelligence says "no way." Non-Computable You explains how humans are unique and why Artificial Intelligence will never replicate you. Robert J. Marks, II newest book, Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will (Discovery Institute Press 2022) explains how humans are unique and why artificial intelligence will never replicate humans.