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Ripple Effects is a video essay about ai in labor. Through different research pieces exploring the history behind the rise of white collar workers to the first hand accounts of animators in an industry being automated. Ripple Effects will be a look into the past and the present to make a guess at possible futures-benny
Ripple Effect is a video essay exploring the ways that A.I. is affecting work in America. Through a mix of research, interviews, and historical analysis Ripple Effect makes observations about our present to make predictions about our future. Ripple Effect begins by covering a very specific example of A.I. in work, that being animation. Using first-hand accounts from animators, Ripple Effect tells the story of automation, deskilling, and downsizing within the animation industry. Ripple Effect then zooms out and looks at the relationship between work, housing, and labor. By analyzing the connection between the development of the suburbs and the rise of the white-collar worker, Ripple Effect concludes how labor shortages cause economic exoduses. Finally, Ripple Effect offers insight into technological unemployment. With readings from economist John Keynes, Ripple Effects highlights the similarities between the unemployment caused by the Industrial Revolution and the predicted unemployment that A.I. will cause. Ripple Effect also uses the history of professions such as bank tellers and automotive factory workers to ground the economic theory in historical relevance. Ripple Effect offers a new voice to people who are overwhelmed and burnt out on the repetitive, circular nature of the conversation around A.I. Giving new context, new knowledge, and new-found hope for the confusing future to come.
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