Algorithmic Anxiety (formerly Yesterday’s Update) Ep. 17, Ghosts, Gen Z & the Great Automation Scam

We start with Stanford’s new paper on the newest generation of Canaries in the Coal Mine: The youngest, most educated workers being directly impacted by AI automation.

Then, we review what's not so autonomous about ""autonomous"" systems. There's a global workforce tasked with the most traumatic tasks of content moderation.

Resources:
- Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf

- ""Ghost Work"" by Mary Gray: https://marylgray.org/bio/on-demand/

- OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/