EP 05: The Electricity Moment | Michelle Schneider, Future of Work Futurist

Will your job exist in five years? A major study finally gave an honest answer, and it came with a disclaimer you have to hear: if we achieve AGI, disregard everything you’ve read here.Marco Palou, author of HOMO ARTIS, sits down with Michelle Schneider, futurist and future-of-work author who spent twenty years inside Google, LinkedIn, and TikTok before leaving Big Tech to study the transformation from the outside. This is Don’t Freak Out, a podcast about being human in the future that came, where every conversation happens while making something with our hands. Today: a Brazilian flag and a sticker box.They talk about the contradicting jobs studies, the AI health agent she built from her lifetime of medical exams with no coding background, humans leading agents and the one-person unicorn, why AI’s productivity boom hasn’t arrived yet (the electricity lesson from 1882), and the Austin school where AI teaches academics in two hours a day and kids get paid to learn.Her closer: the future of work is not in our hands. But your future is only in your hands.Pre-order and get the first 4 chapters of HOMO ARTIS free: https://homoartis.comWatch and follow Don’t Freak Out: https://dontfreakout.usInstagram: https://instagram.com/dontfreakoutpodcastSay hello: [email protected] by Shira Chait and Marco PalouCinematography and stills by Raul Seca Jr.Production design by Teresa Guerrero C.Color corrected by Shira ChaitPost production by Amarte Labs Get full access to Marco Palou at marcopalou.substack.com/subscribe