In this episode Anna and Chris discuss a variety of topics surrounding the importance of constructions and narratives for the purposes of sensemaking about AI and defining goals for humanity, as well as some of the impacts of this going wrong!

In this episode, Chris and Anna discuss the implications of automation on the workforce, especially as AI capability and other technology starts removing low-skill and manual work. Jobs may begin to be inaccessible for significant portions of the population and we will need to have policies in place to fill the gap. While many believe in the position of the Lump of Labor Fallacy, Chris and Anna firmly believe that its model is lacking a key variable which is discussed in the episode - making it fallacy fallacy. How will this change our governance strategy, our culture, and the way we interact meaningfully in the world?

In this, our inaugural episode of Humans Need Apply, we cover some brief introductions as to what we're hoping to achieve with the podcast, and dive right into several of the big topics of Anna's research on Simulated Humans. Other meanderings also appear.